Ive always considered the government taking one out of every two dollars I earn absolute tyranny.

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.

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the medias power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

I think it's important that all 50 years of rock 'n' roll live in the same place, because it's all connected.

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.

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

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