I've lost a little bit of my fire... I don't want to say I've lost my passion.
Every year that goes by, I lose that much more motivation to play rock.
People who aren't as interested in recorded music as they used to be will say, 'Oh, 'Buena Vista?' Loved it.' And I'll say, 'Well, how about any of my other recent records. I've been doing some pretty good ones. You like those?' And they go, 'Huh?'
I think that I used to love Hollywood movies. I remember great phases and moments. But, unfortunately, now is not the moment.
It's very hard when you eat out every day for a living, and a new restaurant comes along and you haven't got that same vigour that you had 10 years ago.
In my old neighborhood, a boy stopped playing when he began to lose his pulse. And then he became the referee.
Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk.
