Be honest in your music.
I've never been too worried about all the music critics and stuff.
I still love the radio. I think the radio is still an important thing in music.
Just do what you love.
The problem is when you write the album, you record all the instruments, you edit the whole thing and then you have to mix it. You start to get out of touch with the songs and it becomes math.
When there are rock festivals where there are sometimes 120,000 people and they're all sold out and they're epic, I think rock is alive and well, and hopefully it stays that way.