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.

Twenty-eight to 31 is the tough period. You have to be really careful because it's so cataclysmic, so life-altering. People do really dramatic things like get married, or they'll get divorced. Your chances of committing suicide go way up. It's basically psychic death. You see the signs of it around 27, and you're still on the out-end of it around 31. Everyone I've talked to who's gone through that and come out the other side walks out of it like, "MY LIFE IS GREAT".

Don't judge yourself by someone else's standards. You will always lose

I'm prepared to spend the rest of my life playing clubs, if that means I'm playing music that I believe in.

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

I think when I listen to old records, it puts me back in the atmosphere of what it felt like to make the record and who was there and what the room looked like. It's more a sensory memory.

The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.