Rock music is stronger than sports. That's why. Rock rules. Around the world, who's more famous: Willie Mays or Paul McCartney?

Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

I didn't live in the world of disco or the world of the Eagles.

There are now grandmothers and grandfathers coming to see us because they are of that age, they grew up in the '50s and '60s and they bring their sons and their daughters to hear the songs they heard when they were young.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

Rock and roll never sleeps. It just passes out.