At the end of the day, the Golden Rule is called the Golden Rule for a reason - do unto others as you would have done to you. In terms of commandments you could probably just do that one and you would be well off. If everybody could adhere to that one, we'd be OK, as long as a masochist wasn't in charge of people.

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

Too many times I've heard records from bands who were obviously, like, 'Well, we're at least gonna do half as well as we did on our last record. At least we can count on that.' You really have to keep that initial hunger that made some of your first best songs your first best songs. You have to keep that fire in the belly.

Any artist that is even surviving right now is a dark horse because things change pretty fast. You're a superstar one day and wake up the next day and you're anonymous. To be successful in any way is beating the odds right now, I think.

When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.

After this many years of being a lead singer in a touring rock band, I've had my fair share of fun. But those days are long behind me.