Pattie Boyd Quotes
"I just don`t want to be the little wife sitting at home. I want to do something worthwhile."
"George hardly said hello. When we started filming, I could feel George looking at me and I was a bit embarrassed."
"He`s very independent and he`s breaking out more and more. He`s found something stronger than the Beatles, though he still wants them to share it."
"I thought he was very good looking and charming." about meeting George for the first time."
"When I was asking George for his (autograph), I said could he sign it for my two sisters as well. He signed his name and put two kisses each for them, but under mine he put seven kisses. I thought he must like me a little."
On divorcing Eric Clapton: "It was the most difficult thing I ever did in my life. I loved him deeply, but knowing that he was still seeing Conor`s mother (Lory Del Santo), I felt there was no role for me. Because he loved me, he believed I would be pleased and happy for him that he had a baby. It was as if I was his best friend; that he could tell me everything without realising how deeply painful this was for me."
On Eric Clapton`s attempts at alcoholism recovery: "It was becoming very difficult. You`d look for the part of the person you know and love, but it was hard to find. I think Eric was worried about his talent totally disappearing if he stopped drinking, which is a common idea among creative people."
"I was a very shy person and, I suppose, easily manipulated. Of course, it`s flattering to feel someone desperately wants you, but looking back, it`s quite uncomfortable to realise that you were the object of desire. That`s quite a passive thing to be."
On leaving George Harrison for Eric Clapton in 1974: "In my naivety, I believed everything was all right. He wasn`t taking heroin, which I thought was the main addiction for him. But, as it turned out, his drug of choice turned out to be alcohol."
On touring with Eric Clapton in the 1970s: "Eric would just completely pass out wherever he was sitting, whether it was on the sofa or the floor, because he was saturated with drink. The realisation hit me: `This isn`t fun. He`s not having fun`."
They were furious because I`d bagged a Beatle! It was so frightening.
On why she became a muse for rock stars: "Maybe it had more to do with them. Perhaps Eric Clapton just wanted what George Harrison had. I don`t know - I just think it`s amazing we`ve come through it and we`re all still alive."
On living in Eric Clapton`s country house: "I loved living in the country; that was the best time we had. It was the most staggeringly romantic garden. There was a sadness in the house and garden, a kind of melancholy which was very Eric, in a way, and very creative."
Everybody got an awful lot from that trip, and it was a wonderful trip,
Eric Clapton showed me this packet of heroin and said: `Either you come away with me or I will take this`. I was appalled. I grabbed at it and tried to throw it away, but he snatched it back. I turned him down - and, for four years, he became a drug addict. At first, I felt guilt. Then I felt anger because it was totally irrational of him to blame me for something he was probably going to do anyway; it was very selfish and destructive.
One Christmas, I`d cooked lunch and most people had arrived and I couldn`t find Eric. It was snowing outside, and I went out and called him, but I couldn`t find him and became concerned. I just imagined him stumbling around in the garden. Anything could have happened. (It turned out that Eric Clapton was asleep on a logpile in the basement.)
Oh my gosh, that`s scary, ... Just lock up all the time and keep the door locked.
It probably took me six years to get over it, with four years of psychotherapy. My self-esteem was unbelievably low, and I found it really hard to build up relationships because I had been used to difficult people. Anybody who was sweet and nice to me was no challenge.
I think that he was amazingly raw at the time. He`s such an incredible musician that he`s able to put his emotions into music in such a way that the audience can feel it instinctively. It goes right through you.
