Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you are trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.- Bruce Springsteen
Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music.
You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you are making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it.
Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he is a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet.
Yeah, I had gay friends. The first thing I realized was that everybody's different, and it becomes obvious that all of the gay stereotypes are ridiculous.
When it comes to luck, you make your own.
When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.
This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that is what you live for.
The release date is just one day, but the record is forever.
The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
The best music, you can seek some shelter in it momentarily, but it's essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
Talk about a dream, try to make it real.
Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience.
