When you have three teenagers, it gives a whole new meaning to "homeland security."

I took a month long vacation in the stratosphere, and you know it's very hard to hold your breath.

I want a thousand guitars . . .

Everybody's got a hungry heart.

I couldn't worry about whether I`m gonna make it onstage or not. You can't. You just gotta do it. And if you do, you do, and if you don't, you don't, and then something else happens. That's the point of the live performance.

For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.