Good manners don't cost nothing.

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. When you leave the house, it isn't safe. The air you breathe isn't going to be safe, not for very long. That's why you have to enjoy the moment.

I don't miss anything by being a bachelor. I don't know any happily married couples, not even my parents.

Rock n' roll sounded like music from another planet. The first time around, we had people like Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis - all them people.

In your twenties, you think you are immortal. In your thirties, you hope you are immortal.

I saw the Beatles play the Cavern in Liverpool when I was 16. They had attitude: Onstage, they were like a four-headed monster.

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.

I don't want to advise anyone to do anything, apart from try and stay alive. That's my advice - don't die.

I'm against any religion, and Communism and Nazism - they're both equally religions. They're just replacement gods.