I'm just lucky because my kids are grown-up - I love them, very proud of them, and we are in close contact as big-time friends, but they don't need me that much now and I can actually enjoy this wonderful world of music.

I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.

Maybe I'm just flying my own little ego ship, but sometimes people resent talent.

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

I'm a total soccer freak. I total soccer freak. Absolute total.

I don't think that you can rehash music that was born in the Fillmore East and came from a whole different set of social and emotional circumstances. The situation has changed. Let's get real about this.

I know that bands that haven't put out a record for 10 years are playing to 20,000 people a night. But that's not the achievement.