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

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.

Band members have a special bond. A great band is more than just some people working together. It's like a highly specialized army unit, or a winning sports team. A unique combination of elements that becomes stronger together than apart.

Rock music had become my religion. Radio my church. And these DJs my priests, rabbis and gurus.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

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

I am interested in the interaction of a group of people who have a common goal, or a common obsession, each contributing something unique to make something greater than the sum of its parts. I don't know why, but from day one, that has interested me.