Radio is not a partner in the industry. I think that the music industry has continued to depend upon radio, but has ended up pandering to a medium that doesn't care.

People are still engaged; they still want music, but they want a choice. So I say, just give the people what they want. It's so simple.

It's the best part of music when we play music for free to give back to people. My band always plays better and I always play better when I know I'm playing for free to help heal or benefit or feed or educate someone. . . . It doesn't matter how many times you do concerts for Africa or South America or Indians. If people steal some of it, keep doing it. They can't steal all of it.

I was ready to get back into music and classic rock and roll was then making a big comeback. It was perfect timing. I felt rejuvenated.

We really try to mix the dance and music together. We're not interested in a hierarchy in which one part was created for the other or the two elements are independent of each other.

I expect the audience to come up to my level. I am not interested in compromising my music to make it palatable to an assumed sub-standard mass.