“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.”

In every kid’s life, there’s about three or four years when you’re at liberty, and after that, you have to get a job because you’re getting married or you have to support your parents or whatever it is.

I make a very good steak.

My advice wouldn’t be good to anybody. I don’t see it really being greeted with thunderous applause.

I’ve always been alone. I grew up alone. I like it that way. Even when I’m in an arena surrounded by 10,000 people, I’m alone in my head.

I like hard, aggressive music.

I once fell through a hole in the stage.

I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It’s crowding me out of my house.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

The thing about death is it’s so final, isn’t it, really? As far as we know… Nobody has ever come back and told us about it.

When you’ve lived the life that I have, you should always expect something like that to crop up. I was not a good boy.

You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.

I like touring; I live on the road, more or less.

I wasn’t very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

I do quite like that Andrew Lloyd Webber song from ‘Cats.’ What’s it called? ‘Memory?’ Sends shivers up your spine.

I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.

Touring is too much fun to stop.

The same thing I did in 2013 is what I’m trying to do in 2014, which is continue to improve, continue to shock people.

I’ve never met a girl who could stop me looking at all the others. If I did, I’d marry her.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did.

Get up tomorrow early in the morning, and earlier than you did today, and do the best that you can.

I know who I am. I don’t have to brag. I know what I contributed. I know what I did.

My mom sold real estate and did it part time.

But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage.