Most bands are commercial enterprises. But I'm not in one of those bands.

I'm doing exactly what I want to do, and I'm having fun doing it.

I don't really like to sit around the house listening to my own records. They're not that good.

I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.

I don't know if it's possible to affect my ego any more. There's no room left. For me, I think I make music like the way I think it should be made, like what rock should sound like. It has nothing to do with the current marketplace. And so from that state of mind, it's gonna sound different from anything else out there. And when something sounds different, I think that can be inspiring to other musicians.

My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.