For the past 32 years, I've done nothing outside the entertainment business. I've had some real highs and some real lows, but I love the work so much that I never once thought of quitting.

Maybe I'm damned if I do, but with every other beat I got left in my heart, you know I'd rather be damned with you.

It's like people call me a rock star or this or that. And I go, 'Don't call me that. I don't think of myself in those terms. If you have to call me anything, call me a chameleon.

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

I don't have a rock voice. I have to force it. I am like an opera singer.

I'm asthmatic. I was a lot bigger back then, and I still get winded on stage today. But I've learned how to pace it now. I have musical breaks in there.

My gigs are built on improvisation: I go out there and I'm like the Energizer bunny.