Bon Jovi's trick is to use heavy-metal chords and still sound absolutely safe. Rock & roll used to be rebellion disguised as commercialism; now so much of it is commercialism disguised as rebellion.

I really believe in the power of music - and I mean literally the power of musical tones - to rearrange the way you can think.

There's no law that says anybody has to do an interview.

There's no glamour in Nirvana, no glamour at all, in fact.

The American indie underground made music for like-minded people who thought for themselves. Thinking for yourself is intrinsically subversive.

People shared everything: information, equipment, their floors, whatever. There was strength in unity.

Ten percent of the American population thinks that Barack Obama is a Muslim. Those are the people that have not learned the skill of filtering information from the vast barrage of inaccurate information that we're all faced with everyday. I think that's a very 21st century skill.