To a musician or songwriter, your canvas is silence.

The idea of retiring is like killing yourself. It's almost like Hari Kari. I intend to live to a 100 and go down in history.

Everything they’d been brought up not to do, they could do at a rock-and-roll show.

Music is a necessity. After food, air, water and warmth, music is the next necessity of life.

Before Elvis, everything was in black and white. Then came Elvis. Zoom, glorious Technicolor.

Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money

You get onstage and make other people feel happy. Make them feel good.