It will be funny in about 10 years.

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.

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

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.

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.

Sex, death and war. And justice. There's no shortage of lyrics there.

My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?'

It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.

Don't look to me. Don't ask for help. Don't ask for anything that you can do yourself

That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!

All you got in life is your honor, man, your own self-image, your own self-respect. If you lose that, or if you give it away or if you sell it, then you ain't got it no more.