A record company used to be a very good thing, but they ended up soul-destroyingly trapping people in the accounting department. And you couldn't get any further, and the heads of each department were changing all the time, so you couldn't have any permanent relationship within the corporation.

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

For a gun-toting nation, Americans are surprisingly passive.

The day I run out of ideas is the day I stop making records.

I don't like the monikers, and I don't like being pigeonholed. You know, I'm a human being.

If anyone asks for your autograph they're showing you respect and give it back to them.

I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.