That was a great time, the summer of '71 - I can't remember it, but I'll never forget it!
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.
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
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.
Born to lose. Live to win.
If you think you are too old to rock 'n roll, then you are.
A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.
Daily papers in England used to have an entire page of the paper dedicated to what the Beatles had done the day before.
I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.
He sighed. "The clouds I can handle. But I can't fight with an eclipse.
When I told you I didn't want you it was the blackest kind of blasphemy
They call her my singer—because her blood sings for me.