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

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

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

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'm not pretending to be an academic, or to have this down to a science. It's strictly my taste. But there is a connection between everything I play and the sets I put together.

Half of the acting I do is actually done by the hair.