I was born at the beginning of rock and roll. I got to experience the entire evolution of popular rock and roll music even before it started.

The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off. It was ritualistic in a way.

The Katy Perry stuff, those are great songs.

I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of seeing the big picture.

When you really can't affect something, you almost don't wanna wish too hard, because it's just frustrating.

In our relationship, we don't have that situation. I don't require what he needs, and he doesn't require what I need. I know what I do; I have an amazing life that nobody knows about.

When my song came on the radio for the first time, that was one of the heaviest things I remember.

I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the radio.

The only job I'd ever had that might be considered not playing music was teaching guitar, which I did in college for a while, but that still falls in the same category.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

With his passing, Dick Clark deserves to take his place at the top in the pantheon of popular culture icons.

I wish I could see over crowds and small groups of people.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

Well, because we're so different as people. And it's that difference that probably also makes it easy to stay together, because we don't get in each others way.

I like playing on stage, don't get me wrong.

The decline of the major labels has changed the audience. They aren't force-fed by a system any more. They can make their own decisions.

You've got to pay me to leave my house, spend the night in hotels and fly in airplanes. That's what I get paid for. Playing I actually do for free.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

My songwriting has evolved, just as I've evolved as a person.

If something that needs to be done that we don't feel confronting, we do it through the manager.

I think the key to making records generally is to make 'em for yourself, regardless of the climate in the business.

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

I couldn't begin to name names... in general I have found racers to be some of the most competitive people on the planet... and some of the nicest as well.