Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible.

The great thing about rock-n-roll is you realize the top of the mountain is big enough for more than one band.

If I write for myself, I write a song and I bring in the musicians that are best suited to play it. There's a freedom there.

It's absurd for anybody to look around and hear the acts and artists who cite us as an inspiration, and then tell me that we're not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Don't kid yourself; the guy who's onstage in ripped-up jeans is wearing as much a costume as I am.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

Credibility is someone else's idea of what I should be doing.