It was such an amazing time for music in the Sixties. When popular music hit me, it was like magic was in the air.

For years I've had neurological problems. I used to shake a lot and I was on medication - I paid about $700,000 for one year of pills. I was taking 40-odd different ones a day.

Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!

There's no present, there's no future, I don't even know about the past.

Do you know what causes low voter turnout in America? It's the result of having the fate of our nation at stake. This began with the bitter presidential election of 1828, which pitted the education, cultivation, and puritan constraint of John Quincy Adams against the yahoo populism of Andrew Jackson, thereby deciding permanently whether America would become a shining city upon a hill or an overlighted strip mall along a highway.

You can choose, don't confuse, win or lose, it's up to you.

None of us is perfect. Everyone has got a skeleton in the closet that they don't want people to find out. I just let it go, with a bit of humor.