Well, especially now I come to realize - and then - I would do my schooling which was three hours with a tutor and right after that I would go to the recording studio and record, and I'd record for hours and hours until it's time to go to sleep.

The only time I did one puff was in Holland, where it's legal. And I went to a cafeteria with some girls, with the little boats and the canals and we stopped and I tried. Nothing. No. But I didn't choke. I took one puff and I said, 'Okay, nothing happened!' It was funny. It was, for us, like cheating. 'Oooh!' You know, there might be paparazzi!'

I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.

When I was in Nashville, Tennessee in 1970 with Derek and the Dominoes, I went into this shop and they had a rack of Strats and Teles - all going for $100.00 each. I bought a handfull and made Blackie out of the body from one, the neck from another, and so on

The Yardbirds came in to the Crawdaddy Club a week after the Stones finished their Sunday night residency. They had done it for almost a year, I think, and then we did it for a year. It was better when they were playing there because when they went they took half the crowd with them and it took us quite a while to build up our own following.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.