In many ways, that affection is the real reward for 56 years in the business. Although the money ain't exactly bad either.

The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.

You know, I've done this show for six years, and this could be the first time that I had a person that actually got no points, and I think it's a damn fine way to go out. I thought I was a loser until you walked up here; you made me feel like a man.

I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.

I knew it was going to be enormous because of the number of people who bought the books, but, to be honest, I never thought it would be bigger than Bond. Never in a million years.

I don't think this show would have come to me 10 years ago. It continues to be this wonderful miracle.

I spent 26 years in the business without ever knowing what I was doing a month from now.

I am thrilled to have been able to put together this new album. I listened to everything I had recorded in the 24 years with Elektra, and then just took all the ones I am mad about.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.

And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.

You've got your hands full if you have three children under 2 years old.

Catfish is not playing guitar no more, he's doing like a home-front thing. He had been in the business around ten years before I got in it, so I guess he's had enough of it.

We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out how to do that. I'm really pro-human beings, pro-expression of everything.