I've just recently started doing the promo bits for the new album, and the funny thing is that the people who come to talk to me about these things seem to be getting younger. It's like the people who like the music are all young kids and they're on top of you - they know all about what you're doing, and they're excited and animated about it. So it's a lot of fun.

Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

That's what my life is, writing songs.

I'm writing a movie about Mozart going to New York in the '60s. I've been reading so many novels.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.