“Good manners don’t cost nothing.”

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.

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

As a roadie for the Jimi Hendrix Experience, I learned that I should give up being a guitar player.

Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.

Eddie Cochran – I never got to see him live, but he could play. Him and Buddy Holly, they were the best guitarists. They could get a good raunchy beat going.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

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.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

I went to go see the Rolling Stones in the park, and they were awful: completely out of tune. Jagger wore a frock.

Women always left me because I wouldn’t commit, but then nothing changes a relationship like commitment. If you move in with someone, you lose all respect for them.

I don’t eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that’s it.

It’s much more fun to be full of hope than pessimism any day of the week.

We’ve made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don’t know. I don’t care. I’m just grateful for it.

You can’t plan your life. It doesn’t work.

It’s when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

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

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death.

Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitted to laugh.

The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It’s not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work, but it’s the resentment that settles on your face

So much in a revolution is nothing but waiting.

There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.

Good coaching is good teaching and nothing else.

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.