Being A Musician Is A Given For

The Reason Why Many Young People In The Vietnam War Era Were Active Was Their Lives Were Threatened By The Draft And They Were Going To Perhaps Be Forced To Go Overseas And Fight In An Immoral War.

I Didn't Grow Up With My Kenyan Family. I Grew Up In A Small, Conservative Suburb Of Chicago.

I Think That New Artistic Challenges Help You Grow Both As A Person, As An Artist, And Then They Feed Back Into Your Other Work, And Tend To Magnify It.

There Are Many Fans Of Hard Rock Music That Have Been Wrongly Pigeonholed As Apathetic. This Music Is Not Music For The Elitist Coffeehouse Culture In Soho. It' S Rock 'n' Roll Music For Kids Across The Land, And I Think That Makes It Much More Subversive In A Way, In That It Has The Form And The Function Of A Powerful, Populist Music, But It Can Carry Very Incendiary Messages.

Whenever I Set Out In A New Direction, Whether It's With A New Band Or Being A Frontman Or Writing A Comic Book Or Entering Into Movie Scoring Or Anything Like That, I Wouldn’t Say That I Do It Fearlessly...