If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Come English Settlement, I had it in my head that I didn't want to tour.

It's very schizophrenic because I like a lot of very straight pop, like Small Faces, Stones, Kinks; and on the other hand, I like a lot of avant garde things.

I felt pressured by continuous touring.

By the early '70s I had gotten reasonable and I started to get in hundreds of groups that rehearsed and never played at all. I mean, the most important thing was to look good and have a great name.

I actually got really petrified by the thought of people seeing me.

You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that.

We're horribly mundane, aggressively mundane individuals. We're the ninjas of the mundane, you might say.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.

It's sort of what jazz would be if it stopped being snobby and what rock would be if it stopped being stupid.

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

Where I've arrived now is the product of mixing the very straight with the very exploratory; there's a fine line between the two, although it tends to be getting straighter and straighter because my songwriting is getting better.

We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.

If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your initial reaction was. On the other hand, if you don't get that tingle, you'd better take it straight down to the record exchange.

The early gigs were pretty panicky - and great, sweaty fun. We were brand new to most people, and they were willing to take anything brand new, for the first time in years.

Terry said he had this new kid and his wife didn't want to live in England. He wanted to tour. He hated being in the studio. Terry liked seeing various bars the world over and getting smashed out of his brain. He was a sort of latent Keith Moon.

People will always be tempted to wipe their feet on anything with 'welcome' written on it.

It was in San Diego and I was onstage and couldn't remember how to play the guitar properly. I was in terrible pain and my nervous system was just going wild, like somebody had just run a car over me.

We do this for the art, not the adulation. I'd rather our music get liked and we get ignored. I don't want to be adored for anything other than the music.

My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

My mother had early-onset Alzheimer's, and it took her four years to die. She was only 44; I was 14.

I like classical music of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and I adore Bach above all.

It's strange that the newspapers don't see a connection between their false revelations about my private life and my need for seclusion and security.

Best friends are those that are there when you need them and understanding enough to not be there when you dont.

I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.

I had a lot of fun with Val Kilmer. He's like a big kid.

The only reason I cant recommend heroin to kids is because the effects wear off.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

I've been on 'Jay Leno,' and everyone likes Jay, but being on that show is a really boring afternoon. I sincerely like Jay, but I wouldn't want his job, because I'd have to interview Kathy Ireland, and there's nothing there I'd want to know.

From the time I was a kid, I was always interested in any and all kinds of new business ideas.

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.

Cinemas gained new young audiences who wanted films made for them.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

The concept of God in America is very different than it is in England. Because we see the horrendous outcome of religion as being an American thing, in which the name of God has been hijacked by a gang of psychopaths and bullies and homophobes, and the name of God has been used for their own twisted agendas.

I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing.

You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

If I didn't do something perfectly, I had to do it again... I grew up with a glue gun pointed at my head.

I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

One thing at a time It is important that we focus on the task that is at present in hand.

My parents would never put too much hype into anything. They're very proud of me, but they're Queensland people. They're just glad that I have a job.

Human rights commissions, as they are evolving, are an attack on our fundamental freedoms and the basic existence of a democratic society... It is in fact totalitarianism. I find this is very scary stuff.

The idea that feminism is a 'battle of the sexes' about blaming all men and setting up a 'gender war' is a handy, controversial media hook. But it doesn't reflect reality.

A really good detective never gets married.