I'm glad that I never ended up killing myself, though I came close more times than I would like to admit.

I never envisioned what I was doing as part of a career.

I don't think there's anything anybody's doing that the Beatles didn't at least try at some point.

You can always pound out demos and send them to record companies, but most of the successful bands I've seen are the ones that can sustain themselves.

For me, L.A. was, and is, a very creative place to be.

I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

Steven and I stood on the stage at the Boston Garden after the Stones had just played there and the stage was still up. We had been playing cards, maybe a high-school dance, to 400 or 500, maybe a thousand. We just stood on the stage and thought, 'Well,man,maybe someday.' In 4 years that was OUR stage.