The terrible attack in Manhattan has given place to a burst of patriotism in the United States.
I don’t watch much ESPN. Unless they have soccer on.
It’s Only Rock and Roll.
I love country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek.
Always as a musician you must have one thing you do well.
I was having a bit of trouble. I wasn’t in a good relationship. Or I was in too many bad relationships. I had so many girlfriends at that point. None of them seemed to care they weren’t pleasing me very much. I was obviously in with the wrong group.
People have different personalities when they’re drunk or take heroin, or whatever drugs.
I think that people taking drugs occasionally are great. I think there’s nothing wrong with it. But if you do it the whole time, you don’t produce as good things as you could.
I wasn’t understanding enough about drug addition. No one seemed to know much about drug addiction. Things like LSD were all new. No one knew the harm. People thought cocaine was good for you.
In England you’re skewered on the altar of pop culture if you become pretentious.
I wasn’t taking so many drugs that it was messing up my creative processes. It was a very good period, 1968 – there was a good feeling in the air. It was a very creative period for everyone.
Americans shocked me by their behavior and their narrow-mindedness.
I don’t know if rock is dying. I wouldn’t want to say that, but the world does change. Nothing stays the same.
I’m very ambivalent in my feelings about marriage. I think it promises a lot to people – sort of like saying, once you get married you are on the highway to heaven, and quite often it isn’t that. I think marriage has always been based on a combination of religious and legal reasons.
I, personally, have a lot of energy, so I don’t see it as an immediate problem.
Rock has to absorb other rhythmic forms, because the underlying rhythm of music changes with fashion, and people like to move differently, and the underlying rhythms have to be the ones that people want to dance to.
It’s heartening to return to live music, heartening for people like me in a band. It’s a very traditional thing to return to. It re-validates the original form that we fell in love with.
The Beatles were so big that it’s hard for people not alive at the time to realize just how big they were.
Drug use makes you snappy, and you get very bad-tempered and have terrible hangovers.
Boys, as far as England was concerned, were always the hard core. And you just know the guys like it. They want to be you. Some might be attracted to you without knowing it.