I'm happier in a garden.

If 'Emotions in Motion' comes out right, I can write the book on the formula rock star.

I was always regarded as being better than ninety percent of the kids in school, but I was also something of a loner.

British rock & roll became the gospel for American kids like me.

The whole British music scene of the mid-sixties had a pretty profound effect on me.

I had great trouble believing in myself, so I didn't believe in my success - I didn't enjoy my success, which I thought was insane.

I tend to be very methodical for a variety of reasons. I'm more of a plodder.

Basically, my life was music, and I was always consumed by it.

I have a great deal of respect for myself as a musician and a writer, even if I'm not doing it anymore.

I got out of the business because I went from being the biggest artist on my record label to someone they didn't even want to have around.

I would never dispute the fact that music is my greatest love.

I was a mess… It's like ‘Rock Me Tonite' is an MBA course on how a video can go really wrong.

I'd always envisioned ‘The Big Beat' leading off ‘The Tale of the Tape' with the biggest drumbeat the rock world had ever heard. I knew I had something good… but I had no idea just how good.

I'm a huge garden and landscape fanatic.

I'd gone to New York at an early age, and I got beat up a little bit, emotionally. So I thought I'd go home and go to music school.

For me, music is this incredibly cerebral trip. You turn on the radio or put on a record, and it's your song, it's what you see.

I wouldn't want to end up in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the 'Master of Hip-Hop Samples,' but you take what you can get.

I was very humbled by the ‘one-man Led Zeppelin' comparisons.

When you're on stage playing, when I plug in a guitar and chord, I'm 16 years old again. I feel the same excitement. It's very overwhelming. It engulfs you.

I'm always happy when I'm outside working in the company of nature.

I always loved music. I liked to go to church because I liked to sing the hymns.

I was good at sports - basketball, football, tennis and dropped them all. At 16, I didn't care about sports anymore.

I can put on 'Revolver' or 'Led Zeppelin II' and then 'Tell the Truth' and there is no quality gap.

I think that 'Tell the Truth' is one of the best rock records ever made by me or anyone - I really do.