All you have 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 don’t have it anymore.
That was a great time, the summer of ’71 – I can’t remember it, but I’ll never forget it!
As you go through life’s rich tapestry, you realize that most people you meet aren’t fit to shine your shoes. It’s a sad fact, but it’s true. A good friend is someone who’d hide you if you were on the run for murder. How many of them do you know?
It seems that our brave new world is becoming less tolerant, spiritual and educated than it ever was when I was young.
Born to lose. Live to win.
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?’
I don’t understand people who believe that if you ignore something, it’ll go away. That’s completely wrong – if it’s ignored it gathers strength. Europe ignored Hitler for twenty years. As a result he slaughtered a quarter of the world!
Don’t look to me. Don’t ask for help. Don’t ask for anything that you can do yourself.
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.
It will be funny in about 10 years.
Reading’s the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
People changing because they think they should is not a good idea, because I just don’t think they should, really.
You haven’t been soiling your soul in public for years like we have.
My ethic is: ‘Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.’ You can be as careful as you want, but you’re going to die anyway, so why not have fun?
Integrity is everything to me. I will not die ashamed. I will live on my deathbed knowing that I gave it my best shot, and everything else is meaningless to me.
I like girls. That’s the only reason I’m in the music business – I discovered you could get women to take their clothes off if you had a guitar. And they come off a lot faster if you can play it.
If there is a God he hasn’t been paying attention. He should retire and hand over to a younger man, because he’s making a real bollocks of everything.
The only time I’ve seen any rebellion was in the fifties, sixties and early seventies. The rest of it you can keep.
We were a blues band, really. Although we played it at a thousand miles an hour, it was recognizable as blues – at least to us it was; probably it wasn’t to anybody else.
People don’t become better when they’re dead; you just talk about them as if they are.
So I peeked under the tent-flap and there was Tommy, stark naked with his clothes under his one arm, running like a maniac. Following closely behind was a furious Guide mistress beating him on the head with his own arm!