With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy.

When I first started all this, it was mostly music fans that came along, Stones fans. But now, I'm being taken seriously. I've got highfalutin art collectors and everything!

I can't go along with all that shit about having to give everything up. I'd always say to them in the clinic I'm still going to have a Guinness, I'm still going to have a glass of wine. They say you can smoke 400 cigs a day and drink 20 cups of coffee, but you can't have a line or a drink again.

What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do.

In my family, they were all big boozers, but they all lived to ripe old ages.

Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.