“I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.”

“I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS' came out until '84. I just remember it being terrifying as more people got sick. We didn't know how you could catch it, you heard all kinds of crazy things.”