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.

Enuff Z'nuff is one of the most underrated bands in the world!

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

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.

You think your congressman is working all day to get you a job? He may want to. He or she is probably not a bad person. They probably want to do the right thing. But they can't.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.