Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

I know that some of the great painters and some of the great artists didn't even start to 'peak', as you say, till they were in their fifties and sixties. And God knows, history is full of artistic people that weren't even recognized till they were dead and gone.

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

You think it's all written, but it's not. There's always another way to twist those three chords around.

It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

I guess we all have a bad night now and then and really screw up. I listened to our earlier stuff and we screwed up a lot. But at least now that we are sober, when we screw up it's for real.

The great British blues guitarists of the Sixties - people like Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and Peter Green - could play like virtuosos, but they also understood the importance of energy and intensity