You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

My mother and I parting company at four years old is a recurring theme; although it's not symbolically necessarily present, it's present in all my relationships.

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.

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

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

That's the great thing about rock n' roll: the myth is ultimately more important than the reality. And that's what you learn - you just learn to go with the mythology.

I think rock & roll has prepared me for a lot of flexibility.