Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame traditionally has had a management style that is very supportive of American talent, first and foremost, over everything else. And I think that's right and proper.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

I don't think people really do listen. We plug into music, and we have short attention spans. We tend to download individual tracks from iTunes rather than a whole album. We buy music DVDs and watch them once, and then they disappear into a drawer, or we loan them to a friend, and we never watch it again.

Our politicians may fail us, but Status Quo always delivers on the promise.