Good manners don't cost nothing.
Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can't be safe. Life's not safe. Your work isn't safe. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.
I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.
Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.
Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.
You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.
I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.
Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.
My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.
I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn't fit in that box.
It's much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.
I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.
I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.
I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
I can never be anonymous - especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?
The thing about death is it's so final, isn't it, really? As far as we know... Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.
People don't become better when they're dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
Rock n' roll's had a good time out of me - and I've had a very good time out of rock n' roll.
I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n' roll - that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
