Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.

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.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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.

I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.

I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.