The soul of rock 'n' roll is mistakes, and making mistakes work for you. The people who shy away from mistakes and play it safe have no business playing rock 'n' roll.

I think of the Replacements only when they're brought up to me. For two years, I'm at home, they don't really cross my mind. I still hear them on the radio. I'm not ashamed of anything we did.

I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies.

I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

Nobody gets married to a clever song, let alone falls in love to one.

Then again, I think about high school every day and I think about being a little kid every day too.

People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.