Rock is gut level and it just gets to people. I think there's far too much emphasis on intellectualization, especially in rock 'n' roll which is a primitive form.

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself.

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

I was like one of those newspapers, those periodicals. There's all different kinds of alcoholics. There's the everyday kind: that's the consistent one. That's what people think an alcoholic is-but an alcoholic is basically just someone who's allergic to alcohol. That's all it means. It's just an allergy.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.