The desire to hit a big home run is dominating the music business.

I don't think people are fans of me because I wrote hit songs. I think they're fans because I'm a lunatic or a weirdo. The hit songs came out of my idiosyncratic personality, not the other way around.

I want to make great songs.

That's at the root of the human interaction: fair trade.

Not let the child run the circus, just have that child be the source of the creative voice.

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

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude about their own lives, or their personal responsibility. Music has never really been the big centerpiece of the fight.