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

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

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

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.

Being a rock 'n' roll star ain't a part-time gig.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

Within three hours of a disaster event there should be a recon damage assessment of the infrastructure and an educated guess as to the casualties and degree of imminent human peril. Then make the airdrops of supplies and personnel. Simultaneously, Seabees would be dropped in, with lights and generators, to begin rescue efforts.