My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.

Stages are getting higher and higher, and I'm getting older and older.

In 1965, when great young white artists in the English-speaking world were successfully re-channeling hillbilly and black music - you know Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Pete Townsend, Keith Richards - they didn't get any money at first. They were all broke.

I don't think there is much American music.

American music culture is black culture.