Rock is stronger than any misguided theories of cultural events. It's bigger than that.

The guitar is like a cuisine and you can't expect people to eat the same thing all the time.

Some-one called my style 'sense of urgency' guitar playing and I've always admitted I often don't know where I'm going when I solo. But that desperation is what makes it exciting.

Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

They were recorded without processed cheese. Listen to old '50s records. The style may be dated, but the recording isn't.

Television was one of those magnificent kind of events where everything fell into place.

Cricket is a team game where individuals inspire each other to achieve performances which surpass what might otherwise be beyond them.

The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well, eat well and keep moving.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

Generosity is also marked by doing what one says one will do.

The game just embarrasses you until you feel inadequate and pathetic. You want to cry like a child.

To return to higher standards of living we must abandon the false prophets and seek new leaders of our own choosing.

Committees do harm merely by existing.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.

Woman, you are a thousand kinds of fool.

The best way to save face is not to use the lower half.

When I was about fifteen, I went to work at Yosemite National Park. It changed me forever. Nature had carved its own sculpture, and I was part of it, not the other way around.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.