We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.

Rock n' roll unchained a nation and revolutionized radio and the record industry, not to mention the motion picture business.

I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.

I am very ambitious in a way, in that I'm not trying to be the richest guy or whatever. I just really like my work.

It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to.

I would like to be able to gently drift in and out of existence when I wanted to.

I'm mellower now, I'm over 50. But I don't think I'm too mellow. I'm still angry at a lot of things.