There have been a lotta tough guys. There have been pretenders. And there have been contenders. But there is only one king.

Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

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

I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find.

All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful.