It's really a drag to do the same project over and over again.

As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.

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

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.

Everything I've done I've just fallen into.

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

I listen to a lot of different kinds of music.