“I’m not afraid of death. How can you be afraid of something that’s inevitable?”

Everything I hear influences me. I can’t tell you all my influences as a musician.

I was the kid a lot of other mothers wouldn’t let you play with.

I find it quite easy to play chords, and, you know, that was all I ever did. I never wanted to be a lead guitarist.

Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.

I always open doors for women. It’s just good manners.

Rock n’ roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis – all them people.

I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!

The Beatles were from Liverpool. It’s a hard town. The Stones weren’t the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men.

I’d never have left Hawkwind if I hadn’t been fired.

I’ve always been very wordy; I’ve got a great vocabulary.

My hearing is usually O.K.

When you leave the house, it isn’t safe. The air you breathe isn’t going to be safe, not for very long. That’s why you have to enjoy the moment.

I don’t miss anything by being a bachelor. I don’t know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don’t understand racism.

Gay people are made and not born.

The Beatles are the classical music of rock n’ roll. And rock n’ roll is far more widespread than classical will ever be.

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.

We may be weak, but looking at our weakness will never make us strong.

It will not be an activity in which all people can participate.

It’s very rare that you get a director that lets you be creative and bring what you feel your character should do or should be.

To be a liar, you’ve got to have a great memory, and I don’t have a memory.

I didn’t really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn’t want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

Everyone wants to be safe. Well, I got news for you: You can’t be safe. Life’s not safe. Your work isn’t safe.