I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

It's so thrilling. And not just the music. The Internet is changing the future of fund-raising. I'm thrilled by the potential.

Between the redwoods, growing up and enjoying nature, camping on almost every vacation, and getting to go to summer camp in the Adirondacks, it was really very apparent to me that we had to preserve what we had on the earth.

Distribution has really changed. You can make a record with a laptop in the morning and have it up on YouTube in the afternoon and be a star overnight. The talent on YouTube is incredible, and it can spread like wildfire. The downside is that it's very hard to convince the younger generation that they should pay for music.

We can live in fear or act out of hope.

I'm one of those people who just doesn't plan my personal life. I plan my professional life.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.