bapu
Ginger has probably been asked those same "silly" questions for 40 years now. And each person thinks they just "thought them up" for the first timer EVER!!!!!
It is a serious issue all around these days, and you can see it all over the ProgArchives board ... you have these "prog" experts go ask a question or two and then one guy was lecturing Gary Green (Gentle Giant) about progressive music ... right after he had said that they didn't compose anything, they just played!
I imagine that Ginger and many of those "famous" people are tired of the same old crap and questions, and it's hard to not take it personally when yet another idiot asks the same question ... so him being askew is not totally out of line ... but then, we made him a "god" and now we're complaining ... and that side of his personality was there before ... many times!
If he can't appreciate his place in the whole music thing, he should retire, take off with the old lady and go visit the world and see a little sunshine and sunrain! Even Mick is nicer than that!