You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

When I was a teenager in the '70s, I was really into those great bands like Led Zeppelin and Queen and Jethro Tull, Deep Purple, Alice Cooper.

You know, there's times when you should play and there's times when you gotta hold back.

I don't think I approach my songs differently from other artists. You get a big picture of it, and you imagine the song and hear and feel it, and that big picture is like a snapshot, and it comes to you as fast as it takes to click a camera.

My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar.

Critisism is just reflection of the person that speaking

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.