When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.

The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

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.

Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.

Just as the best way to judge an adult is by his or her record collection, the best way to judge a pub is by the albums on its jukebox.

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.