Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
You can still function as a living ruin.
Without the blues, modern music would be nothing like it is now - not remotely.
America was cool with Saddam Hussein when he was killing Iranians.
In the summer of '84, you just couldn't escape the Born in the USA record.
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'