I Am Not Very Conscious Of The

Americans Get Very Simple Explanations Of What Happens To Them.

You Know, Being In A Rock Band, You Can't Overdo The Costume Changes Too Much Because Everyone Thinks, Oh, That's Not A Real Rock Band. Look How Many Times He Changes Costumes. That's Not Rock. Rock's About Going On In A T-shirt And Staying In It And Getting It All Dirty. But That's Not Really My Approach.

Any Performer Is One Person Privately And Then He's Another Person When He Steps On The Stage.

When You Write Songs, You Have To Like Them Yourself First, But Then You Have To Make Everyone Else Like Them, Because You Can Force Them To Play It, But You Can't Force Them To Like It.

The Grown-up World Was A Very Ordered Society In The Early '60s, And I Was Coming Out Of It. America Was Even More Ordered Than Anywhere Else. I Found It Was A Very Restrictive Society In Thought And Behavior And Dress.