Some records with drum machines on them sound phony and plastic. It all depends on how you use the tools.

In forty-five minutes, it'll all be done. We'll all be good and crispy, but we'll still be number one.

Mick Jagger can't even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn't have before and perhaps write a song about something that I've written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.