From the age of 14, 13, I guess I wanted to be a rock 'n' roll star. And that was it. I wanted to make a living playing rock 'n' roll, and it was a ridiculously impossible dream at that time. But it was kind of all I ever wanted to do. It's nice to do it.

The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

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

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

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

I am a reformed Taoist, part-time Buddhist, Hindu, animist, pagan, Jewish mystic, and Christian. I always got along great with priests and rabbis and mullahs and gurus, even though I spend most of my life constructively criticizing them.

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