I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

My songs are like my kids.

I don't know why people thought I was retiring.

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.