I never considered myself like a pop musician or rock star, because that didn't really exist when I started.
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
Most youngsters are so well-connected with the rock music circle that they will know instantly if I attempt to imitate any rock star.
If you want to find somebody and you want to be married and you want to have children, don't make it a rock star.
Pop stardom is not very compelling. I'm much more interested in a relationship between performer and audience that is of equals. I came up through folk music, and there's no pomp and circumstance to the performance. There's no, like, 'I'll be the rock star, you be the adulating fan.'
Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.
You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
In Washington, I found myself as a 31-year-old in a room with the president, vice president, and secretaries of state and defense, and I was unfazed by it. But get me around a rock star I grew up with and I have trouble completing sentences.