"I'm telling you, the ingenuity of alcoholics is something else. If only it could be put to some kind of good use. I mean, if you said to an alcoholic, 'Look, the only way for you to get another drink …"

"I don't know if I believe in aliens. But I wouldn't be surprised if they exist."

"I'd convinced myself that there was no point in even trying, because I was just going to fail, like I had at school, at work, and at everything else I'd ever tried. 'You ain't no good as a singer,' I …"

"I'm not a genius. I'm just a guy who got lucky."

"I'm just a rock 'n' roll star. I'm not a politician."