"If you go to a psychiatrist, you're going to get a label. If you go to a guru, you're going to get a label. If you go to a priest, you're going to get a label. I don't want a label."

"I'm just a guy who writes songs and wants to be happy."

"As us kids all remember, rock and roll was a great big thing, and it was a revolution, and it was freedom."

"You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles were bastards."

"I used to be cruel to my woman. I beat her and kept her from the things that she loved. Man, I was mean, but I'm changing my scene and I'm doing the best that I can."