When Ozzy calls and asks you to go on tour, you say, 'When do I start?'

We each have our own tour bus. We've never done that before.

It's just kind of known in the music industry that a farewell tour means 'for now.'

People say I have a distorted lens. I think I see things as they really are.

They say the music you listen to in your formative years stays with you and leaves an impression for the rest of your life. For me, the things that I fell in love with happened in the '70s, when artists were nurtured by record companies and it wasn't about singles.

Being able to say something lyrically, to say something that will do more than just be words, is really hard. It's easy to do when you're writing a chapter of a book or writing poetry, but it's really hard to do when you're confined to a melody line.