A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

Artist - musicians, painters, writers, poets, always seem to have had the most accurate perception of what is really going on around them, not the official version or the popular perception of contemporary life.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

So I would choose to be with you, That's if the choice were mine to make, But you can make decisions too, And you can have this heart to break

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

Don't go changing to try and please me You never let me down before Don't imagine you're too familiar And I don't see you anymore I would not leave you in times of trouble We never could have come this far I took the good times, I'll take the bad times I'll take you just the way you are Don't go trying some new fashion Don't change the color of your hair. [...] I could not love you any better I love you just the way you are.

I always thought of myself as the piano player in the band. That, I suppose, I'm confident about, and I guess my songwriting developed as I went along and I got a certain amount of confidence in that. The songs are like my kids, I'm proud of all of them for one reason or another.