I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I'm often reading a magazine and hearing about someone's new record, and I think: "Oh, boy, that's gonna be better than me". It's a very common thing.

It was a period when they used to read into our lyrics a lot, used to think there was more in them than there was.

I would quite like to have been a 1920s writer.

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

If anyone had told me in the '60s that 20 years later we'd still be talking about whether pot was worse than this or that, I'd have said, Oh, come off it, boys.