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It [retirement] was absolutely boring. You can't go and say, 'I'm retired now. That's it!' It won't take long and you're really gone for good and someone throws the last shovel of dirt on a coffin with your name on it. That's the moment you're really retiring - when you die.
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I didn't follow any rules at all. I made my own.
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I'm not trying to twist people's heads around. I'm not trying to say, "Believe in me."
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Evil thoughts and evil doing, cold, alone, you hang in ruins.
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There are no unachievable goals.
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The road to nowhere leads to me.
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With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.
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I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.
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I believe in what I do. I mean, I don't go out - I don't have the clothes or drink anymore, I don't do drugs or any of that. I used to. But I got very ready to get me out of the house.
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There are no impossible dreams.
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I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.
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Black illusion is all I ever see.
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There are no invisible seams.
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Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.
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To be a parent, especially to rock & roll kids, I think being a parent is the most difficult job on the face of the earth. You hate to say things that will upset your kids, but then sometimes you have to because you can't let them run around wild.
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The feeling you get from playing to a good audience is hard to describe without sounding as though you are talking silly. But reaction is important. You might feel in yourself that you're doing it ok but it's when you get the live reaction that you know you're doing it right.
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You've got to believe in yourself, or no one will believe in you. Imagination is like a bird on the wing, flying free for you to use.
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It has always been my goal to believe in what I do and love what I do and be true to that.
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I'd like to sing songs that are mellower. I don't want to be screaming when I'm 60.
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People think I'm crazy, but I'm in demand.
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Children of the future, watching empires fall. Madness the cup they drink from, self destruction the toll.
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Take my hand and we'll go riding through the sunshine from above. We'll find happiness together in the summer skies of love.
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I think if a man can create something like an atom bomb, he can surely create something with his own mind.
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In those days, if you wanted a new car or a holiday, you'd phone up the office and they'd send you some cash. You never had a bank account. I don't know anyone from the music business in the Seventies that it didn't happen to.