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.

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

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.

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

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.

Music is my love and to me acting is more mercenary. I don't pound the pavements for roles: if it happens, it happens. I hate that auditioning thing.

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