I feel like at 50 I’ve decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.

Many rock musicians are excellent cooks, I’ve found, and those that are prefer to eat their own cooking in the studio. I encourage this behavior as I also enjoy the benefits of fresh food.

From 1958 to 1964, that’s real rock n’ roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

I was one of the first of the uglies. Rock Hudson and Tab Hunter… were very pretty fellows, and that was the trend. I was one of the first of the uglies to get lucky.

I’m a rock and roll singer.

The pilgrims on the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock. To my knowledge, they didn’t wait around for a return trip to Europe. You settle some place with a purpose. If you don’t want to do...

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands.

I can’t even picture being without rock ‘n’roll.

Ricky Nelson… I couldn’t believe it when he died. He was a great rock star.

The Beatles never sounded intimidated by their idols. They never interpreted old rock; they simply played it as well and as joyfully as they knew how. On ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ John Lennon does nothing but...

For me, acting was always a way to explore emotions – to dip into the well and really try to reach rock bottom down there. That was the most exciting part of it. I hadn’t...

Classical music can rock you!

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn’t death.

On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I’d sing that.

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

People want to talk about whether I have rock cred, whether I’m selling out, the theatricality, the gay stuff… Chill out! And just enjoy yourself.

I’ve been lucky to get some path-breaking films, which proved to be the turning point in my career. Be it ‘Rock on!’ ‘The Last Lear’ or ‘Raajneeti,’ directors started working in a different way.

I started writing songs when I was real young, when I was 3 years old. The piano spoke to me – I don’t remember when I wasn’t playing piano. My second grade talent show was...

We went from an era when rock ‘n’ roll meant wearing a bustier as a woman and these spandex things and guys trying to portray someone that wasn’t realistic. We are trying to make it...

What you read between the covers of your Bible is wisdom for a lifetime, rock-solid, forever truth—truth you can stand on, live by, and trust…forever.

Juliet, the dice were loaded from the start. / When you gonna realize it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?

All that stuff about heavy metal and hard rock, I don’t subscribe to any of that. It’s all just music. I mean, the heavy metal from the ’70s sounds nothing like the stuff from the...

It is incredible to me that my Twitter feed is a source of ‘news’ for every rock news outlet around the world.

My dream job is to be a rock drummer and the alternate drummer for the Foo Fighters.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

What you’re looking at there is my arm, going into the rock… and there it is – stuck. It’s been without circulation for 24 hours. It’s pretty well gone.

For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big brother.

There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It’s below the radar. The beauty of it is that you’re not supposed...

Your dreams are your solid rock; all other dreams are sinking sands! Recreate Your World and I believe you can!

I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs… I love writing on an acoustic because...

Halfway through the set, the lead singer, who goes by Cloud, knife in hand, begins to stab at the cutout of Copal Brandt with a lion’s passion. Out of nowhere blood is produced and Cloud...

The Devil has all the best tunes? My arse! Metalville just got a new sheriff.

A more important reason is that the bands will intuitively trust someone they think is a peer, and who speaks fondly of the same formative rock and roll experiences.

I want to go back to the format that radio started with rock n’ roll, with country artists and rhythm and blues with that oldies type feeling. I want to put it all together and...

Any local music scene at any point in time can be referred to as derivative of more well-known acts. The line separating influence from imitation is a blurry one. Very few artists are completely original;...

The whole ‘School of Rock’ experience was really cool, and just meeting new people from all over.

If you were looking at where you would like your career to go, then you would have to cherry pick The Stones. People love coming to see them. They are it, they are the most...

Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.

As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That’s the difference.

Business people have been made into these rock stars because they’ve made a lot of money.

James Taylor may be an all-American boy but he isn’t Horatio Alger, and the lionizing of many rock stars by the rock press has as much to do with old fashioned rags-to-riches stories as does...

I’m thinking of putting together an all-star band. I definitely have a bit of a rock fantasy.

The blues is the foundation, and it’s got to carry the top. The other part of the scene, the rock ‘n’ roll and the jazz, are the walls of the blues.

Blues became rock, rock became soul, and all of it was colorblind.

With rock music, the amount of power that you can generate, the intensity behind the intentions of your lyrics that you can really reflect through rock music – you can’t do that in jazz. You...

My friend Fred Coury, the drummer in ’80s rock band Cinderella, told me that in the rock world, you’re either still there, or you’re struggling to get back to where you were.

I feel like there’s no subject that can’t be sung about. I wrote a song dedicated to people with inflammatory bowel disease, and then I wrote about shoes. And mangoes. Every rock should be turned.

There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, ‘Yes, there’s oil under there.’ A geologist who has been studying those kinds of...

I’m a big fan of piano-based rock music like Elton John, Ben Folds, and even Queen.

I want to do rock operas.