In music the mystical element is definitely there all the time, and one can see it. When it comes to rock and roll, when it comes to any kind of industry, it's not there. It's not there. So it's a battle between the two. Music, Industry.

I take lots of vitamins, but I don't think that's what keeps us going.

Christina Aguilera is an incredible musician and singer.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

It's scary times for humanity, it seems. But as my octogenarian father tells me, "The world has seen harder times, and the world will survive." The arc of history is long, and the mess we're currently making is just a blip.

That undercurrent of the forbidden was always a part of rock.

I think, actually, that rock and roll is a misconception. It should no longer be a term for music.