Playing the drums hurts my back.

Fame, at one time, was associated with accomplishment, but in this day and age fame and notoriety have become confused.

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.

The land of opportunity spawned a whole new breed of men without souls.

I said, baby, do you have no shame? She just looked at me, uncomprehendingly, like cows at a passing train.

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.'

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