Rock and Roll is still asking people like me to live up to the old guard's concept of what success is but it doesn't mean anything.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

I grew up in the suburbs and basically associate the suburbs with cultural death.

Where is this great love for rock and roll that existed for 50 or 60 years?

James, that's a bad situation. I'm not saying it's not repairable, but it's pretty far. When you go from being in one of the best bands in the world to some cover band... as far as I'm concerned, he was playing down at the pub.

There's something going on right now in America, where the American spirit or character is reasserting itself around liberty. I think it's an important time, and I'm trying to document that as an artist. If I just filter what I read through the media, if I just go through what I read through the media, I'm not really in touch with the world I grew up in. I know there's a gap there, I talk to my relatives, I talk to people I meet traveling around, and their mind is on something completely different.