I'm trying to be confrontational and direct. If I lack directness then I only have myself to blame because I lack the skills to make my point clear.

I don't want to play old music. To me, it is fighting battles that are already over and calling yourself a warrior. For me, I see no courage or adventure in doing the old thing over again. If others want to, that's for them. For myself, I have to move on. Life is too short to live in the past. There is a lot to be done.

Giving a good performance, giving it all is what it's all about. I love to perform.

Michele Bachmann is always a great person to go to for an opinion about anything. She has a very active and interesting mind.

Musicians should not play music. Music should play musicians.

I'm not interested in censorship. I like the First Amendment very much.

We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.