I wish I could just project everything on the paper.

When I came to New York people immediately accepted me in the sense that I was anonymous. And I liked that.

Rock 'n' roll is hard work, it's harder than being in the army. And your guitar is your machine gun; tour instruments are your implements of battle.

Loyalty lives and we don't know why / And the paw is pressed against the nerve of the sky / You can leave him behind but he won't leave you / And the road to Heaven is true - true blue.

It's no secret - I love detective fiction. One of the reasons I love being in London is because I like to watch all the shows on TV. I watch them all. I like 'Detective Frost.'

I like gettin' old.

I'm not a very analytical person.

As an artist, I used to think that my responsibility was to do good work. But I had to learn from the '70s on that being a public figure presents another aspect of responsibility.

I came into music because I thought the presentation of poetry wasn't vibrant enough. So I merged improvised poetry with basic rock chords. That was my original mission.

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.