The electric guitar was vital in helping what I've achieved where would I be without it? Playing awfully quietly, for a start.

I've never had a problem with drugs. I've had problems with the police.

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you.

Music is a language that doesn’t speak in particular words. It speaks in emotions, and if it’s in the bones, it’s in the bones.

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

You've got the sun, you've got the moon, and you've got the Rolling Stones.

If you've gotta think about being cool, you ain't cool.

True friends. Hardest thing to find, but you never look for them - they found you ; you just grow into each other

Everyone talks about rock these days; the problem is they forget about the roll.

You don't find a style. A style finds you

He would never again need anything from his mother and father but their love.

You can make a thousand different movies about the same subject.

As one grows older one becomes more critical of oneself and less of other people.

He who is his own guide is guided by a fool.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

Me mum used to always have the radio on - even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school - constant noise, really.

He who despises life is his life's master.

I don't really understand why when I'm not making music, I feel like I can't breathe.

I like my ladies lady-ish, feminine so to speak. I love jeans and hoodies, but the idea of being an ultimate tomboy does slightly confuse me.

They are hare-brain'd slaves.