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

From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

Rock'n'roll as a genre is different from pop and hip hop: it is about bands, and that for me suggests brotherhood, family, friendship and community.

I was in the back of the car with my girlfriend, the Rascals came on the radio and I realized their song was sexier than the sex I was trying to have.

Timing really is nearly everything. And what it isn't, circumstance makes up for.

I'd never go onstage in my life without fully intending to do the best show you've ever seen.

Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.