Failure isn't failure if a lesson from it's learned. I guess love would not be love without a risk of being burned.

It would have been fun to have played Tim Robbins' role in Bull Durham.

Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the "old stuff." And if an artist comes in town and dumps his entire new album on me, as a listener in a concert venue, it happens to miss out on the old stuff that I came there for. That doesn't work too well for me as a listener. Most of the time for concerts, it's the old stuff.

I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

Retail should never ever tell the copyright owner how their stuff is sold.

I don't fly any awards at the house. Any award you get is usually for something you've done in the past. And I like to keep looking forward.