I understand people who say, 'There is no Queen without Freddie. Just leave it be.' Because that's what we felt, following his death. All three of us said, 'Right, that's the end of the band.' But the band just didn't seem to die.
The Ramones went through a couple different line-up changes, and Johnny and Joey held through the whole thing. So right now I'm the only one hanging in there.
There's a lot of bands that get to a certain level, and it just stops. They scrap it. Compare this to, say, The Rolling Stones or The Who, where they just continued on forever and are still playing, or they quit after 20 years.
Most bands don't even last fourteen months let alone fourteen years.
Bananarama were written off from day one. Nobody believed in us but us. We kept having hits despite the record company, despite the press.
A lot of bands change, and a lot of bands break up, but only a few grow.
One indisputable fact is that whatever has happened to, and with, the Allman Brothers Band, we've persevered.
Most bands have a two-year success rate. By the third year, it's sort of over. Here we are in Poison still together 26 years later.
You have people ask us how you get through all the stuff that Skynyrd's been through, and I think it's the music; it really is.
