Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why.
I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something].
The wonderful thing about rock music is even if you hate the other person, sometimes you need him more, you know. In other words if he's the guy that made that sound, he's the guy that made that sound, and without that guy making that sound, you don't have a band, you know.
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.
I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice.
T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy.
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