I'm tipping the hat and looking back.
The kind of vocal exaggeration that I developed was based on what key songs were in.
I may as well do everything as if it’s brand new, and if I start to feel that any of it’s a compromise, then I’ll...I’ll be in Wisconsin.
If you do what you think is right for the benefit of everybody and everything and you make decisions, to go back and regret them afterwards - it's a futile experience and it's not worth thinking about. Because life just unfolds. Provided you do your best and you think you're on the right track, you can only be right or wrong. But to regret it - I don't think there are any huge errors or misdemeanors.
Life is life. You do a lot of different things and you have great adventures but there's not a lot to talk about unless you're in the middle of an adventure at the time. Circumspection is not one of my better, favorite conditions, really.
There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.
You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you
Alice Cooper's weirdnesses must really make the kids feel violent. These kids are like my sister, young people of 14 or so who've come to enjoy themselves. So you put things like that in front of them, and I don't think it's right.
I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.
There's nothing worse than a bunch of jaded old farts, and that's a fact.
I kind of disguise my limitations by hanging out with very talented people. The excitement of the collision between the microphone-twirling guy from 1966 to now is just a fantastic adventure. There aren't many of us left and I've managed to kind of cover my tracks pretty good.
Well, I suppose I could do a solo album, but my god, it would be terrible!
Whenever I have bid a hasty goodbye to a loved one, I've always made sure that my record collection was safely stored away in the boot of the car.
You have to ask these questions: who pays the piper, and what is valuable in this life?
Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.
I don't think I've aged gracefully.
You know sometimes words have two meanings.
I'm like one of those firecrackers that goes off in your pocket occasionally. I'm not really struggling with it as much as the people around me. But at least I'm not doing too much damage to anybody or to myself. It's just the condition I'm aware of.
A daily blog would just about finish me off completely.
I think The Song Remains The Same is such a load of old bollocks.
The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
I haven't lost my innocence particularly. I'm always ready to pretend I haven't. Yeah, it is a shame in a way.
Now and again there will be the occasional joke about owing someone two dollars from the days in '63 when I was a broke blues singer with a washboard, but it's good. I'm happy.
I live with the people I've always lived with. I'm quite content.
