I try to explain that to my kids – the experience of going to a record store, flipping through racks and finding that album cover that intrigues you – but my kids don’t want to know about it. They download the one song on the album they like, and pay their 99 cents.
You better stand tall when they’re calling you out, don’t bend, don’t break, and don’t back down!
I have had some sorry-ass looks, but I’m the first one to laugh. I’m either to credit or to blame for the ’80s.
Piano playing is a dying art. I love the fact that I can be one guy with one instrument evoking an emotional and musical experience.
I took some important things with me from sports. Rock and roll is a team sport. You’re only as good as your weakest link.
The Rolling Stones set the bar to where I look to as a band. But I don’t envision myself touring in the way they do. My knees won’t hold out.
Women have always ruled my life, be it my mother, my wife, my assistant, or my daughter, so I don’t really fight with them. I relinquished control years ago.
I don’t work well outside the lines; my report card once read, ‘doesn’t play well with others.’
I think record companies are criminals.
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
For years, I’ve had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
The internet and social networking are new avenues for the next Bob Dylan to be born on.
The only thing I like more than my wife is my money, and I’m not about to lose that to her and her lawyers, that’s for damn sure.
Women rule the world. It’s not really worth fighting because they know what they’re doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.
How can the Replacements be the best band of the 80s when I’ve never even heard of them?
My health and my family are the core of my being.
I pray every day, several times. It soothes me. I don’t ask for anything, except for health.
You think you know me just because you know my name, think you’ve seen me ’cause you’ve seen every line on my face.
When the world gets in my face, I say, ‘Have a nice day.’
I’m not a big disco guy.