"I hate most of what constitutes rock music, which is basically middle-aged crap."

"I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set."

"That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere."

"I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear."

"If there is dissatisfaction with the status quo, good. If there is ferment, so much the better. If there is restlessness, I am pleased. Then let there be ideas, and hard thought, and hard work. If man feels small, let man make himself bigger."

"My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species."

"I try to bring the audience's own drama - tears and laughter they know about - to them."

"I have spent a lifetime watching kids make mistakes because they were not trained or well led or properly motivated to do well. I never faulted the kids rather, I saw opportunity to train, to motivate, to improve leadership - not to punish the individual."