I didn't make that much money... Once I joined Bruce (Springsteen), I took a huge pay cut.

My lifelong friend and mentor Frank Barsalona is gone. And the music business as we knew it went with him.

The simple fact is we do not live in a democracy. Certainly not the kind our Founding Fathers intended. We live in a corporate dictatorship represented by, and beholden to, no single human being you can reason with or hold responsible for anything.

I have lost a brother and a best friend. The world has lost one of the greatest actors of all time.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

Young fans want to know about the past and older fans also want to find new music.