When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

If there's one thing I'm good at, it's gathering people together to do something fun.

My songwriting is like extending a hand to the listener.

CBGB represents a lot to New York City and to underground rock and to new wave and post-punk and whatever. But, you know, it's like tearing down the Jefferson Memorial or something.

Who's to say what's a good voice and not a good voice?

Just the other day someone threw a bra duct-taped to a tennis ball. I just stood there, playing guitar, thinking how this was totally premeditated. Some girl sat around inventing a way to get her bra onstage from 40 rows back.

How come drummers leave their drumsticks on the dashboard of their car? So they can park in the handicapped spaces.