No, I was two years older than the other guys. I was a war baby. My family were a lot poorer than they were. I'd had to fight too hard for anything I had in my life and to smash things up for me.

I've always felt that music is an art form that deserves to live the life of the artist.

I never understood that if you sweat as much as I used to every night, you drain your body of salts. So I got very, very, seriously ill. I got to the stage where I was almost hospitalized with serious problems.

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

I struggled more than anything else to find a voice for this band.

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life.

I love Adele. That's a lead singer; that's the real deal.