When I Was 16, The Pot Weeded

If You Don't Have A Flag Sticking Out Of Your Ass, You Must Be A Communist.

The Cliché Of That Sort Of Wasted, Renegade, Drugged-out Musician Of The '70s Is Kind Of Dead And Gone Now. And I Suppose That A Lot Of People Still Keep Relying On That, Or Some Kind Of Image To Perpetuate Something That They Think They're Supposed To Sound Like. But That Kind Of Takes You Away From Real Inspiration And, You Know, Real Artistic Discovery Of The Individual.

Real Success Is Not Being On The Cover Of A Magazine; It's Knowing That You've Done, And Enjoyed Doing, What You Set Out To Do.

I Was Never Too Interested In High School. I Mean, I Never Went To A Dance, I Never Went Out On A Date, I Never Went Steady. It Became Pretty Awful For Me. Except, Of Course, I Could Go See Bands, And That Was The Kick. I Used To Go To Cleveland Just To See Any Band. So I Was In Love A Lot Of The Time, But Mostly With Guys In Bands That I Had Never Met. For Me, Knowing That Brian Jones Was Out There, And Later That Iggy Pop Was Out There, Made It Kind Of Hard For Me To Get Too Interested In The Guys That Were Around Me. I Had, Uh, Bigger Things In Mind.

Music Reflects The Time That It's Being Made In, And So Certainly, The Music That's Being Made In 1986 By A 14-year-old Kid Will Reflect Some Magic Of 1986 For Him If He's An Inspired And Creative Musician.