I listen to the crowds [laughs]... I like Blind Melon very much.

It's crucial that I kind of keep up, without drifting into the backslapping land of cliche and lifetime achievement awards.

Old men do it better. We're not so sensitive in certain areas.

It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer.

I'm not saving lives. I'm singing and I should go placidly and joyously through the whole thing and work hard and not take it for granted. It's great to have this gift.

You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

I'm not interested in being known as the singer from Led Zeppelin.