I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy

Everybody's got something to tell you. And most people have told me to do the obvious thing as far as my career goes. Which would have sent me tottering into the abyss.

I'm not a sad old hippie - I'm a joyous old hippie.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

Well, once you get the groove of your life and you sort out the aspects of your life that you prefer, and you’ve performed all your responsibilities as a father and as a partner. And just discovery and the great adventure of having eyes wide open. There’s so much of this beautiful planet that is still actually spectacular and stimulating. There are so many amazing people that you meet along the way. By using my career as the wind in the sails of my adventures, I could see so many things and so many people that I might have missed had my career gone a different direction.

I think I'm prone to panic.