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

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention.

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

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 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.