When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids.
The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n' roll thing going on.
Rock never meant the same thing to everyone, but when I was growing up in the late seventies, everyone could identify the five, ten bands that formed the center.
Without Elvis none of us could have made it.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
Rock n' roll seems like it's faded away sometimes, but it will never die.
I feel proud to be a part of rock n' roll and the whole tradition of rock n' roll.
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
I love rock. I love the music that was born out of the latter part of the 20th century. It means a lot to me.
Im more in love with Rock n Roll today than other things. It grows, you know?
If you don't like The Ramones, you don't like rock 'n'roll. They're like The Beach Boys without the sea.
The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
We've been working on a new album, which is going to come out next spring, which is very different, a change of style for us - it's going to be almost like rock music.
I think the first person who kind of broke my mind was probably Jimi Hendrix. Listening to him opened my mind up to where you can take music and how far you can take rock n' roll.
Jimi Hendrix's music was escapism.
