“Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We’re just a disease on this planet.”

I never thought it was an option.

Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.

Good manners don’t cost nothing.

People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.

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.

You don’t know where you’re swimming to. Everything’s blurry.

So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.

My most important goal is to set myself up on every Sunday to have a chance to win, and I know if I do those things, then everything else will take care of itself.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I owe the best of myself to geology, but everything it has taught me tends to turn me away from dead things.

I’m from Samoan heritage, and with the rugby in our blood and everything,

I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don’t have anything against that.