Beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.

No one respects the flame quite like the fool who's badly burned

Although I was well past my teenage troubles, our music was specifically designed to lubricate the passage from adolescence to adulthood.

I just could not believe that 30 years later we're still looking at people who are supposed to write little 2-minute pop that when they actually try to do something that's a little bit more they regard it as pretentious.

It's like the mod thing is happening again.

Rock music is important to people , because it allows them to escape this crazy world. It allows them not to run away from the problems that are there, but to face up to them , but at the same time sort of DANCE ALL OVER THEM. That's what rock and roll is about.

Hearing loss is a terrible thing because it cannot be repaired.