When you move artistically, the natural inclination is to denounce everything that's gone before.

We weren't like mates who decided to form a band. The other three met me because they were interested in being in the band that I was starting.

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

These days you're not just competing with the tedium, you're competing with the cellphone.

Rock & roll is not about what you play, it's about how you play it.

I didn't grow up with my mother, and so losing her for real was like, some sort of latent childhood, some sort of unresolved issue. When she left for real, it was sort of like, I was done.

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