I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

I want to play tennis and fornicate.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

The States were much more fun. L.A. was L.A. It's not L.A. now. L.A. infested with jaded 12-year-olds is not the L.A. that I really dug.

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

Back in my day, we called it rock 'n' roll, but then we always reminded listeners that it was no big deal if they didn't like it.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.