I never liked jazz or anything else. Early rock n’ roll – that was music to me. Everything else was boring.
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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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Got two kids; one’s a record producer who lives just up the road from me – great guitarist and piano player, too.
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It’s very much up to you, how you shape your life. I mean, I missed out on human relationships. But looking at relationships that I’ve seen along the way, I don’t think I’ve missed much.
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People look down on stuff that sells. What do you call that? Downward snobbery, I guess.
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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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I’m against any religion, and Communism and Nazism – they’re both equally religions. They’re just replacement gods.
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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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I think love’s an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can’t keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that’s death for me – I like to be surprised.
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Like most housewives, I don’t cook unless I have company.
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I don’t know, I’ve always written songs that are mainly about attitude, not me personally.
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Bomber’ was the first song I wrote about war.
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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.
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The more you learn about everything, the more you learn that everything’s fixed not in your favour.
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Gay people are made and not born.
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You learn all the best stuff in life after you leave school.
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I always wanted to be able to show off like the guitar players do. I think I managed that alright!
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