Give blood, but you may find that blood is not enough.

The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage.

As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

Rock 'n' Roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them

I believe rock can do anything, it's the ultimate vehicle for everything

A lot of my audience are in their 50s. But they want me to pretend to continue to be pretending.

Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.