I was in the Rockin’ Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain.
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I wanted to be a farmer; actually, I wanted to be a horse-breeder. And I had the stallions… but then I heard Little Richard, and that was it.
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I don’t know if love exists, not the kind that keeps.
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Rock n’ roll’s had a good time out of me – and I’ve had a very good time out of rock n’ roll.
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My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn’t the driven sort.
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There’s no point thinking about dying, because it’s going to happen anyway, isn’t it? I don’t waste my time worrying about that.
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Good manners don’t cost nothing.
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Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.
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I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.
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I always thought we had more in common with punk than with anything else, but we had long hair, so we didn’t fit in that box.
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I was lucky: I didn’t get married, so I didn’t have to have that responsibility.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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My hearing is usually O.K.
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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.
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Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I’m certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.
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Touring is too much fun to stop.
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