The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

Selling out is doing something you don't really want to do for money. That's what selling out is.

There's no retirement for an artist,its your way of living so theres no end to it.

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.

Dream up the kind of world you want to live in. Dream out loud.

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.