A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Let's raise our glass and let the hammer fly, yeah, this is the long good-bye.

My image had always been very heterosexual, very straight. So it was a nice experience for me, a chance to clarify my own feelings about gay and lesbian civil rights.

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

I don't know many artists who are not crazy.

I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend.

By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on.