I know what it takes to make a band, how they should interact, what makes a record sound like it's a band - everything having to do with a band, I happen to be into.

Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

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.

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!

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

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

It's become uncool to play other people's songs, and that's absurd. It has got to change. It's the reason why everything's so mediocre.