You know, I was a school rebel. Whatever they said do, I didn't do. I was totally anti-everything..

My feeling was that I simply didn't have the enthusiasm to do reinvention..

I was making guitars and I was a sheet metal worker and if you ever see sheet metal workers' hands, you've never seen so many cuts in your life..

There is certainly more in the future now than back in 1964..

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina..

I don't know many singers who actually do like the sound of their own voice..

Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis..

I always used to develop a cold going into the studio..

I enjoy singing; being in touch with something that is inside of me..

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because i….

But contrary to what some people seem to think, I was never a bully. I was just a hard man..

I don't over-sing anymore, which I used to suffer from terribly because I couldn't hear myself..

I can't hit some of the real high notes I used to hit, but it makes you have to explore different avenues..

I have to tell you, and I don't mean this as sour grapes or anything, but it is hard to play for fans who see you all the time, makes it much harder..