The Terrible Attack In Manhattan Has Given

The Grown-up World Was A Very Ordered Society In The Early '60s, And I Was Coming Out Of It. America Was Even More Ordered Than Anywhere Else. I Found It Was A Very Restrictive Society In Thought And Behavior And Dress.

I'm Interested In Feedback And Learning What People Want. It's A Tricky Thing For Me When I Do A Set List. You Get Bored Doing The Same Songs. Let's Say We Do One Ballad In Two Hours, And It's "wild Horses." If You Say, I'm Tired Of That, Let's Try Something Less Well Known, And Then You're Out There Stumbling Through This Song You Just Relearned At Sound Check, And You Realize People Probably Want "wild Horses" Instead Of This. You Do Need To Do Some Songs That Aren't So Well Known. The Question Is How Many? I'm Open To People Posting Their Requests.

Americans Get Very Simple Explanations Of What Happens To Them.

When We Heard We Were Topping The Bill Over James Brown We Couldn't Believe It. We Tried For Two Days To Get It Changed Round - I Mean You Can't Follow An Act Like That.

Thousands Of Years People Have Taken Drugs, Whether It's Alcohol, Which Was Invented About 5,000 Years Ago. People Have Been Using That. And All Kinds Of Marijuana And All These Things, Tobacco. So All These Drugs Have Been - It Seems To Be The Propensity Of Human Beings To Want To Use Them.