A lot of times within strongly organic stores or nutrition supplement stores there're a lot of vitamins that claim that it'll speed up your metabolism. There really isn't anything proven as far as that goes.

B-12 is important to get through the diet and there are not animal supplementations of B-12. It is an essential nutrient in that we don't make any of it but we need it. You want to try to get around 100 percent.

Vitamins have an extraordinarily long shelf life, so if you have a Sam's Club card or you find a way you can buy them in bulk, that's another option because they'll keep at least a year or so before they start losing anything.

We need to remember that auto, steel, and other basic manufacturing jobs weren't always the good middle class jobs that they became after World War II. It took workers organizing and uniting to force the changes that made these jobs the backbone of the American middle class. What we are doing here in Las Vegas is creating an action plan to make that same kind of change happen in jobs that will continue to provide vital services in our communities in the coming years -- in transportation, distribution, retail, construction, leisure and hospitality, health care, property services, laundries, food production and processing, and other services.

I don't charge for my album at my shows. It's much more important to me that I'm able to communicate something to people ? that they're coming out and listening to me. For that, I'm happy to just give my album away.

You can just get up there and play, and are accepted. It's exceptional. There is so much talent, and a great fan base that really knows and appreciates so many different types of music. And the bands and fans all support each other. It really is like a big family.