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

I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].

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

There's a beauty in work and I love it, all different kinds of work. That's what I consider it. Rock is my job, and that's my work. And I work my ass off, you know.

Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again

When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness.

Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going.