The idea that I could write songs that people wanted to hear came from other people who said they liked what I did.
Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.
I think CGI is interesting, but it's too expensive and limiting in terms of what you can do shot-by-shot.
I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.
People like my voice and say I can sing, but I don't like microphones in front of my face: it distracts me.
The radios are going to dictate. That's another fight. That's another story there. I wish they just let it be.
There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
A true musician, like Johnny Cash, should be able to walk into a room with nothing but an instrument and capture people's attention for two hours.
The public is usually slow to catch on to new things, and it's important that musicians stick to their guns and not look for that instant gratification.
Playin' bass runs and singin' lead vox, is sometimes difficult, but I have three words for you: Practice, practice, practice!
I liked the fact that I was forced to get inside of my emotions and to really try to figure out a lot of what I was going through.
There's nothing more painful than something that's superficially upbeat but you can kind of tell behind it that there's a cynicism, or even a bitterness.
I don't like knowing what the next song is because that's what I'd think about during the number we're playing.
Only the guys who never made it and will never make it in the U.S. need to put up the front that they don't care about America.
I don't want to see old people doing rap or rock and roll. It makes me cringe.
My vocal ability is very limited, but I'm fortunate in that I can write the songs around my vocal limitations.
I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
You know, it's absolutely connected to The Mollusk in that, it's what we're writing after The Mollusk. A lot of this stuff reminds me of things on The Mollusk.
But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground.
