"If it's too loud, you're too old"
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung."
"He has Van Gogh's ear for music"
I’m sick to death of people saying we’ve made 11 albums that sound exactly the same. In fact, we’ve made 12 albums that sound exactly the same.
"When I was a little boy, I told my dad, 'When I grow up, I want to be a musician.' My dad said: 'You can't do both, Son.'"
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings.
“A kid once said to me “Do you get hangovers?” I said, “To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.”
When I first met him [David Beckham] I didn’t know whether to shake his hand or lick his face.
"Status Quo is to music what Bjorn Borg is to golf"
"I don't know anything about music, In my line you don't have to."
Let me be clear about this: I don't have a drug problem, I have a police problem.
When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano.
"Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read."
"I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch."
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.
Dogs smoke in France
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
“Well, I sort of don’t trust anybody who doesn’t like Led Zeppelin.”
"When you strum a guitar you have everything - rhythm, bass, lead and melody"
"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
"I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder"
“Everyone talks about rock these days ; the problem is they forget about the roll”
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
If I knew I had to play this song the rest of my life I probably woulda wrote something else....
Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house.
No public gigs are scheduled at the moment....