There would be no rock and roll or rhythm and blues without Leo Fenders' contribution ... the tone is everything

It's very personal in California to live within hours, and sometimes just a few miles, of earthquake faults when nuclear plants were being built.

I think that we have a unique opportunity as performers and artists to be kind of the town criers and also to get more people to listen, so that's a blessing and a responsibility that I take very seriously.

With the new ways of getting music out, you don't need a label if you're a legacy artist.

I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

There's something about the Strat's shape that is at once masculine and feminine

The anti-nuke movement has important and far-reaching implications for grassroots organizing. It can unite kids and musicians, everybody, whether they're leftist or rightist, or radical, or Republican, because energy is energy. But in fact, it is a real political struggle - it shows people that it's big business against the people.