In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

The audience will make you feel like a demigod. But when you leave the stage, get back to being human.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

Amateurs in professional situations make me very impatient.

What anybody else thinks about you is really of no consequence. It's what you think of yourself.

Hard rock may have faded from the media for a time, but I've always been able to make a living, if not in America, then in the rest of the world.

I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.