I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you.

Even the Beatles found it hard to escape their image; they were trapped by it.

Richard Lloyd of Television is one of my favorite guitarists. His mentor was Jimi Hendrix when he was just 14. Jimi was always pounding everything he knew into that kid.

I don't want to wreck my voice. I love to concentrate on playing the bass and keeping it very rock-solid. If I were singing, I would have blown out my voice.

I play bass. I don't have to go out there and screech.

You learn just as much from your failures. Sometimes you love your failures even more.