The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

In England, rock music very rarely infiltrates the charts, but country music even less so.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to beat. I shouldn't like it, but I do. I can't put my finger on it.