I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.
I hate leaving home. I love what I do, but I'd love to go home every night.
I think a lot of people came into rock n' roll to try to change the world. I came into rock n' roll to make music.
Punk was more based on social change than on music, so it didn't bother me too much. It wasn't really a musical threat.
I majored in fashion design in school, and I have always wanted to design my own line of clothing, jewelry, and stuff like that; so this was just a step for me in that direction.
My big chip is that I never had an education. I wanted my children to get one so they didn't fall into the same trap as me.
I have no doubt that there are great people about though... the thing of it is, nothing to this day moves me like classical music (Debussy, Vaughn Williams).
Everyone goes through the ups and downs of living - fretting about the future, worrying about what happened. Music teaches us how to be in the moment.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.
You can grow up with literally nothing and you don't suffer if you know you're loved and valued.
There is an assumption that if you're young and pretty, you will get all these opportunities that are way beyond your musical foundation.
The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.
It seems like the older bands are bigger than ever. We get a mixed crowd where you have kids and old blokes like me.
If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.
The blues is a mighty long road. Or it could be a river, one that twists and turns and flows into a sea of limitless musical potential.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
