The public doesn't want new music.
In Latin America, people want you to write beautiful melodies and words. But there are also songs that do well because they show the reality of life.
I'd do the blues all the time if I could, that's what I'm into. But people just don't like to hear it.
Popular music is popular because a lot of people like it.
I tended not to be concerned about whether a song was going to be a hit when I wrote it. Because it became evident that none of us knew what was a hit and what wasn't. So I thought if I just write what I like, why shouldn't people like what I like?
Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.
What I do know is rock and roll and metal never goes away, ever. It took the back seat in America in the '90s. In Japan and South America, it was still really big. I never followed trends, so I don't know the exact function of them.
I think pop culture would have survived without me!
Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.
America is tough for rock music. Rock n' roll used to be the main music for the youth, and it's not so much anymore. It's hip-hop and stuff.
I think people listen to whatever they think is good.
Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
You'll see an erosion of rock 'n' roll for sure... if you're playing a mainstream festival, you don't want to be the rock guy when everyone else is talking about Swedish House Mafia.
I mean the public likes it more in Europe than they do here because the state supported organizations have felt that playing contemporary music was part of the education of the public.
