If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older.

Well, a sort of epiphany: I was in a great band. And it's very cool to be at 53 and realise that when you were a kid you were in a great band.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.

I don't want to be just a straight pop singer. I'm a vocalist and that's what I want to be seen as in the long run.

I think people understand things different when they get older. It’s not a question of getting soft, or seeing things in the gray areas instead of black and white. I really believe I’m just understanding things different. Better.