I guess when you're young you have tunnel vision.

We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll.

I hate heroin. It killed off a lot of my generation. It killed off a lot of my friends. Now this generation is getting killed off again. I can't believe it. How many dead bodies do we need to have piled up?

We sent out tapes to the others but they didn't wake up. It was worth it just to have one kid wake up. I got to meet him after he woke up.

I climbed down the outside of a Holiday Inn once just to surprise one of my crew by getting on his balcony and knocking on his window.

Eric Clapton wrote "Layla" when he was coked out of his mind. Later on, it nearly killed him.

It's just that I am too old now to chase all the woman involved; which just seems a shame.

I have never been married, but that doesn't mean that I didn't mate. As you get older you get too many bad habits. Who is ever going to put up with me?

People lose their lives in the drug wars and you don't have to prove it to yourself because others have proved it for you.

You haven't been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.

People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don't think they should, really.

Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake.

Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.

It will be funny in about 10 years.

People don't want to see the guy next door on the stage, they want to see a being from another planet. You want to see somebody you'd never meet in ordinary life.