We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.

We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.