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

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

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.

Half of the modern world goes back as far as Pearl Jam. The real historians go back to U2. But they need to go back further. They have to go back to the '50s and '60s, where things started. That's how you get to be your own personality, by studying the masters. Rock and roll was white kids trying to make black music and failing, gloriously!

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.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.