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

There is an established tradition of actors directing films that have a particular, personal meaning for them - Warren Beatty, Clint Eastwood, Kevin Costner, and most recently George Clooney to name a few. Remarkably, their films share an unusually high percentage of being very good.

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

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.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

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.