"Live music is better." "It's better to burn out than to fade away." "Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock'n'roll is becoming. It's your parents' music. "My my, hey hey. Rock and roll is here to stay". "All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don't subscribe to any of that. It's all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the Seventies sounds nothing like the stuff from the Eighties, and that sounds nothing like the stuff from the Nineties. Who's to say what is and isn't a certain type of music?" [When asked if punk rock influenced his 1979 album "Rust Never Sleeps] "No, I wasn't really influenced by that scene. Most of the songs on that album had been written well before the Sex Pistols were ever heard of. The Thrasher was pretty much me writing about my experiences with Crosby, Stills & Nash in the mid-'70s. Do you know Lynyrd Skynyrd almost ended up recording Powderfinger before my version came out? We sent them an early demo of it because they wanted to do one of my songs." [About his 1974 tour] "Oh, that was a fabulous tour, one of my best. Over in England, The Rainbow... Bristol was the best ever... the Festival Hall... those were magical gigs. I did an encore at the latter with nobody there but Ahmet Ertegun who owns Atlantic records I said, Ahmet, I played so good tonight I think I deserve my own private encore. So we went out and played Tonight's The Night for the fourth time that evening (bursts out laughing) with no-one left in the theater."