Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

Money was a much saner goal than adoration. They'll both drive you crazy but if I'm going to blow my brains out for five years, I want something to show for it.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

I read the Life magazine articles about free love and free dope in California. At age 20 I drove to Los Angeles.

People don't care how you feel. You need to paint pictures, you need to tell stories. That's what people want. They want to be entertained. Then all of the other stuff kind of filters across as part of the whole thing.

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.

It was 1967, and the hippie thing was happening. I got into experimenting with drugs while I was in college in Michigan.