No, I've never thought that I was gay. And that's not something you think. It's something you know.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

Page and I get offered everything: women, little boys, cocaine, the lot, to just go back and do that again. I don't think it would be a good idea at all. [But] I reserve judgment to change my mind in five years' time.

As we wind on down the road, our shadows taller than our souls.

I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.

What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

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