I don’t make any money.

Very much like that, and very much a loner, do you know and I didn’t fit really into sport or all kind of group activities as a kid, I couldn’t find a niche. And music...

There’s no comfort in the truth, pain is all you’ll find.

Now that I’m staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I’m less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for...

I’ve never written a book before.

I’m also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.

Our albums just tend to be collections of songs really, because we all write in the group, all four of us.

So I’m known-and actually so I’m unknown, you know, or relatively unknown, such as the stuff in Africa and the whole experience I had there.

Hypocrisy is the essence of snobbery, but all snobbery is about the problem of belonging.

Rock isn’t art, it’s the way ordinary people talk.

I did smoke a joint once but I did not enjoy it.

I would advise any gay person that being out in the real sense can never happen too soon.

There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at the same time they look so cuddly. Can you imagine what humans look like to animals? They...

They were keen for me still to play the piano, which I was going to, but 45 minutes of piano would be extremely boring. I like a bit of light and shade.

Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics side, you know.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.

The first records I heard were from Dizzy Gillespie and people like that.

I’ve got the god given talent or the god given opportunity better put, to let that out in a harmless way you know, and I don’t know what it does to you, I don’t really...

A nightmare is two bassists on stage.

I feel like I’m stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it’s always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

I don’t care who I play to, as long as they enjoy listening to what I play.

Each song has its own secret that’s different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas other times it might come fast. There are no laws...

I must say American radio is good in a way because for new groups, especially like English groups that’s how the interest picked up on us over here.

I think that passion and love and pain are all bearable, and they go to make love beautiful.

Some extremists take elements of the sacred scriptures out of context.

If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

When you came knocking on the door this morning I was quite happy playing the guitar, for fun, I mean and not practicing and I’ll always be that way.

It’s my own stupid fault, as usual. I was in possession of class C drugs, which is an offence, and I have no complaints about the police, who were professional throughout.

Oh yeah – for sure – hardly a week doesn’t go by when I don’t hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily with a view to selling a few hundred...

If it wasn’t good, I wouldn’t be going back out on tour.

I’m not a collector, however, and I have no desire to own 50 or 60 guitars.

Queen has taken the all of our time for last four or five years, you know.

That creates the magic, and that’s the wonderment of the musical process and how precious that is.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

I don’t care what stage or what reason, as long as we’re playing.

It was an unknown thing, a lot of people had very bad trips and I like to be in control.

I’m not anti-American. I’ve lived with Kenny, a Texan, for six years.

We know there’s no use in getting miserable, so we go out on the town instead!

We can all put weight on or lose weight.

But I’ve always been accused of being a bit tight with money, so it hasn’t particularly changed my lifestyle.

The master’s eye is the best fertilizer.

I’ve returned to being an amateur without any ties or strings attached, which gives me a freedom I never had before.

You’re always frustrated, you don’t have the chance to do a song on the album, like the Beatles did with Ringo and George, or like Led Zeppelin, where everybody was given a chance to contribute....

It was a mystery to me, how the tuning was, or the style seemed to come out of nowhere, it obviously had roots in America going way back, there was nothing like it for me...

If I thought that any of this was pre ordained, then it takes away any kind of incentive to struggle, or to put up with things, to reach for those impossible dreams, all those dramatic...

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades...

I don’t regard myself as a great classical or jazz pianist. I like country music, but I’m not a great player. I just like music. Drums ‘n’ bass is pretty exciting and I’d love to...

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.