It's Been Up To Me To Inspire

You Were At School And You Were Pimply And No One Wanted To Know You. You Get Into A Group And You've Got Thousands Of Chicks There.

It Is Painful To Relive Things That Have Caused Emotional Crises Or Whatever And Find Ways To Express That Musically.

Music Survives Everything, And Like God, It Is Always Present. It Needs No Help, And Suffers No Hindrance.

I Have Always Been Resistant To Doctrine, And Any Spirituality I Had Experienced Thus Far In My Life Had Been Much More Abstract And Not Aligned With Any Recognized Religion. For Me, The Most Trustworthy Vehicle For Spirituality Had Always Proven To Be Music. It Cannot Be Manipulated, Or Politicized, And When It Is, That Becomes Immediately Obvious.

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.