I feel that I was a useful contributor to society, and that I couldn't be a contributor to society in any other way.

Nobody gets between me and my microphone.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

The irony is that musical artists have enormous public voices, but behind the scenes we're voiceless, actually.

Biggest lesson I've ever had in life is that blues had a baby and they named it rock 'n' roll.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I suppose the biggest change to me is this kind of very oversexualizing of everything. Not that anyone wants to take the sex out of rock 'n' roll, you know - that would be ludicrous - but it seems that everything now, it's like the sexuality is the only voice; everything else is gone.