My experiences with dope were not good for me. I had to go another route. Because in my experience, dope didn't give me those insights.

I've never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I've felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

And I shall watch the ferry boats, and they'll get high, on a bluer ocean against tomorrow's sky. and i will never grow so old again, and i will walk and talk, in gardens all wet with rain.

It's all complete instinct and intuition, and that's extremely difficult to teach.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

When I first started drinking, everybody was doing it. That was before they discovered marijuana and all that. It was the late 50s, early 60s - it was the beginnings of the rock 'n' roll era. The main drink was like wine. And even that was a romantic throwback to something.