Never give up, never slow down, never grow old and never ever die young.

Maybe my biggest aim is to bring a sense of that old mystery of rock 'n' roll into the new age of today's instantaneous and fast world.

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.

I typically will work on a lyric in a three-ring binder. On the right side, I'll write the lyric, and on the left side, I put in alternate things...and things that might be alternates or improvements. I'll turn the page and do it again. I'll turn the page and do it again, or incorporate the improvements. Eventually, I end up with some material, and often it needs to be ordered.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious experience or a community to sort of subscribe to.