... if you take a risk, two things will happen. People will laugh at you. Or you'll be way ahead of everybody else. And if that's what you're in it for, then you gotta take that risk.

Guitar players never listen to lead singers.

But most of all, the train that kept rollin' all night long of rock n' roll you cannot kill. It will live forever.

We believed anything worth doing was worth over-doing

Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.

A lot of bands have managed to borrow parts of our style for their music. That's fine with me, because we've borrowed from people like the Stones. But we don't want to sound like we're copying anyone, including ourselves, so we're moving on.

The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.