You can create art that makes people feel better.

Take away all the emotional baggage of any band's fight, be it The Beatles or The Stones, but in the end, you just enjoy the creativity. That's what the legacy is.

The longer you live, the longer you hear the repetitiveness of things. So, it's hard to get excited about new stuff.

As long as you want to pay to see a band, what makes the band want to get better? Nothing! Really! The Stones are, God knows, horrible beyond horrible, but it doesn't stop the fans from paying money to see them decompose in front of your very eyes.

Music is a potent energy force.

I'm a blues guy and I listen to blues all the time and blues is timeless.

I think as a human being, if you can do something to impact someone's life, that's about the greatest accomplishment you can have.