This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for.

But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention.

Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.

The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.

And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.