People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

The world's a stage, and I want the brightest spot.

Howard took his old audience. We're after a new one.

We're the only band that's got real communication between the stage and the audience. People know they can come and talk to us and pour beer over us, buy us a drink and spit at us. [on his group, the Damned]

Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite Chinese restaurant - you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage.