The only way to deal with critics is to go over their heads direct to the public.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it.

That was a great period. We were like kings of the jungle then, and we were very close to the Stones.... I spent a lot of time with them, and it was great.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that's a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

My name's not John Beatle, it's John Lennon.