I had a few friends who we hung out with and that was it. We'd ride together, get in fights, go dancing, just causing trouble basically.

I dropped out of college, started playing music. I was going to do what I was going to do and it is what it is.

I'm so scared of flying.

I still dream about my parents and have done every night for 10 years, and I wake up either crying or having to remember that they're gone.

I don't get DRUNK before I play but I might get drunk after.

I was a total punk. But I was still an outcast, even with the punks and stuff.

I'm not raging drunk when I play. I just like to relax. Sometimes I stop and I tell people "I'm sorry, I'm really nervous".

My mum always told me, 'Have something to fall back on' and I never really listened.

I'm older, so it gets harder.

I'm just working class. I can pay the bills most of the time, usually from royalties.

I've always been freaked out in my mind performing.

Courage is the integrating strength that causes one to overcome tragedy.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

Don't underestimate the power of the nonplussed look and the shake of the head. Letting noxious words hang in the air can be very powerful.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Terrorism is one of the cardinal sins that the Koran threatens with hellfire.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

In order to find out who you are, you will, at some point, have to feel really isolated, left out, different.

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.