If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

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

The life of a rock & roll band will last as long as you can look down into the audience and see yourself.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

The press has let the country down. It's taken a very amoral stand, in that essential issues are often portrayed as simply one side says this and the other side says that. I think that Fox News and the Republican right have intimidated the press into an incredible self-consciousness about appearing objective and backed them into a corner of sorts where they have ceded some of their responsibility and righteous power.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I was signed to a record label at the same time as my friend Elliot Murphy, who makes great records to this day.