I don't like people's table manners. That really puts you off eating food.

We've made bad albums in the past, and people have bought them. I don't know. I don't care. I'm just grateful for it.

I'm not a poker player; I play slot machines.

I don't eat vegetables. I eat potatoes and green beans, and that's it.

I didn't really want to be in the lifestyle without the music. And I didn't want to be in the music without the lifestyle.

I was never going to be a doctor or a lawyer, so being a musician seemed to be the best of what was on offer.

People don't know how to be outrageous anymore.

Gay people are made and not born.

Human nature is to blame for everything, innit? We're just a disease on this planet.

There's no point thinking about dying, because it's going to happen anyway, isn't it? I don't waste my time worrying about that.

Am I going to get my warts removed? I might do, but I'm certainly not going to auction them on the Internet.

In 1967, I had my first black girlfriend, and a lot more ever since then. I just don't understand racism. I never thought it was an option.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

You can't plan your life. It doesn't work.

Oh, I listened to a lot of the blues. I love the blues. You know, Slim Harpo, people like that, and Sonny Boy Williamson.

I can never be anonymous - especially when I walk round looking like this; especially when I take so much trouble not to be anonymous, right?

Cold pizza is a perfect breakfast, with lots of salt.

My father walked out on us when I was three months old, and my mum, well, she wasn't the driven sort.

I learned that if I had known how much of this Nazi memorabilia there was to collect, I never would have started in the first place. It's crowding me out of my house.

I am emphatically not a Nazi.

My persona has given me a certain notoriety, if not international celebrity.

Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.

I wasn't very worried about the Cold War; I was busy being a musician.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.