I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great.

We keep grinning 'til the weekend comes, just a pinch between your cheek and gum, all night long.

I wouldn't say rock & roll is dead but the current music made by young people isn't really rock & roll.

I probably hold more town halls than any member of Congress.

You can fix things with digital technology and there's a temptation to fix everything or make it perfect and what you're losing there is the human performance that may not be perfect but there may be magic in it. You can make it perfect but music doesn't sound good perfect for some reason.

The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.

Digital technology has eaten classic radio as we know it. Independent stations with disc jockeys who chose their own music have all gone; it's these huge parent companies that own a hundred stations and then decide what we should hear.