Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like Iggy, Lou Reed, Jerry Lee Lewis, Black Sabbath, Nick Cave, Hubert Selby Jr, Billy Gibbons, Al Pacino, John Lee Hooker, James Brown, Johnny Cash etc. have been really great to me. What strikes me is most of the time, the bigger the celeb/legend, the more polite and cool they are. It's the insecure ones who treat you like they're doing you a favor by shaking your hand.

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

For myself, I can't understand a life without a job. I don't know what I would do without employment. Retirement is out of the question for me.

People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.

The lowest stress environment is the radio show. I am not on camera and I can let the music do the talking. The rest is more highly pressurized or in the case of writing, time intensive task. I say yes to all of it and like all of it but the radio show, by nature of what it is, is the least hassle.

We know that in September, we will wander through the warm winds of summer's wreckage. We will welcome summer's ghost.

You can still function as a living ruin.