It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting.

I'm not sober. I haven't done drugs in 3 1/2 years, so I call myself clean.

I'm going to take care of myself because that's what I need to take care of.

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you feel. And that's why people remember more songs that have meant something during their life than films. They start to define periods in your life, and that's kind of the beauty of it.

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like rock and roll, doesn't consume me 24-7, it's not love. It can be respect, appreciation, admiration, wonderment, it can be a world of glory and a lifetime of peace, but I can't call it love. Love burns me and confuses me. Love's a light that can't be extinguished.