I always used to develop a cold going into the studio.

You have to keep fit being a singer - that's part of the job. You can't do it unless you have incredible stamina.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

When I sing, I try to live the song or live the emotion of the song. The space I'm in doesn't exist. It's another world.

We tend to think of age only in time, but I don't think it has much to do with time at all there's a whole load of other things. I've met 16-year-olds who are old and 90-year-olds who are young.

I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.

I've never wanted to be anyone other than who I am.

Rock n' roll seems to have changed society much more than any politician, I think it really has.

We weren't wealthy but we definitely weren't poor. We were incredibly rich because there was a wonderful community in Shepherd's Bush, where I grew up. All my friends were into villainy and crime.

I'm surrounded by good people. That's the measure of a good life. All the rest is flotsam.

First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice.

I love being in love, but I also love other things, like not being jealous, overly sensitive, or needy.

Government was founded on the working premiss of being primarily an asylum for ineptitude and indigence.

You'd tell the world what your best friend wore to sleep if you thought it made a good enough story.

A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

Art is the great stimulus to life.

I have created the life that I live... therefore I can create the life that I want.

If you saw that Yankee pitching too often, there would be a lot of guys doing different jobs.

It may be impossible to have a revolution without crimes but that does not make revolution a crime.

If fortune torments me, hope contents me.

The soldier who fights to death never dies, but the soldier who fights for existence never truly exists.