“From the beginning of time, the bad guys always had the best uniforms. Napoleon, the Confederates, the Nazis.”

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.

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

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

In my opinion, the best fans on the planet really did put us where we are.

These ‘messengers’ will not be hindered from accomplishing at their best speed the distance which they have to go, either by snow, or rain, or heat, or by the darkness of night.

But what’s real? You can’t find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

The focus must always be on how to best accomplish the mission.

Love betters what is best.

Years of misguided teaching have resulted in the destruction of the best in our society, in our cultures and in the environment.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.