Everybody likes to run around on their phones, including me, but we don't always want to hear who's sweating somewhere in some non-air-conditioned factory to create those things so that they can keep the prices down.

I want to make great songs.

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

Well, all rock and roll is based in artifice.

A good artist is willing to die many times over. What's funny is, I've died so many times.

I mean there's certainly a lot of progressive rock and metal that exists at the underground level, which has its own vitality, as it should. But it seems to have lost its ability to really charge up the hill.

Do I belong in the conversation about the best artists in the world? My answer is yes, I do.