When you go through hell, your own personal hell, and you have lost - loss of fame, loss of money, loss of career, loss of family, loss of love, loss of your own identity that I experienced in my own life - and you've been able to face the demons that have haunted you... I appreciate everything that I have.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

I want to love. I want to enjoy life.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

It's not that my father didn't love me, it's just that he wasn't capable of consistently being there. His mood swings were gigantic.

The difference now is that the paparazzi get paid fortunes. That's what motivates people; it's about the money, sadly, at anyone's expense.

I didn't end up some sad, tragic guy singing in a lounge somewhere. I never went out and took big money for nostalgia and became like an oldies act.

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically aligned with that whole mentality, the whole ideology of that generation, the music, the culture, the behavior.