Rock & Rollers don't dress for the weather.

Playing music is the best thing in the world. It makes show business almost bearable.

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

The world today is the same as it always was but people know more about what's going on in the world than they used to.

I think we as a band, as individuals, understand that all popular music stems from blues and jazz and even pop, but rock 'n' roll especially comes from blues. What we're trying to do is play rock 'n' roll, but other people call it different things.

Until I was six years old we lived in the projects, then my two brothers and three sisters and I moved to a three-bed that my mother's father built.

When you're a kid, you have this feeling like you're indestructible. Your mortality doesn't even occur to you. But as time goes by, you realize, "I better cut this out or that out if I want to continue to exist."