A missive to all you metal bands, the world is totally over the rock thing. Rock is deader than it's ever been.

I put up with the music business because I understand that I'm in the tradition, I'm in a tradition that's of far greater importance than the business I seem to be in. Everywhere I go in the world, people ask me about the business that I seem to be in, but I'm not really in that business.

I don't have a problem with 'Idol' or 'X Factor,' I have a problem with when those things are not given the proper contextual hue.

For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

We can look you in the eye and talk to you about life, heart, love rock'n'roll, whatever, but we do not have the moral authority to tell people how to vote or what to do with their bodies. We are just a rock band.

I don't have any sentimental notion about how people are going to remember me.

To re-embrace what I once loved about music has been a warming process for me, because it's a good, earned feeling now.