I grew up watching MTV, so it's very surreal to me to think that there might be someone out there watching MTV, looking at us the way I used to look at Davis Madonna and Duran Duran videos.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I worked with three people who were doing video music shows before MTV.
MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.
I was inspired by a lot of people when I was young. Every band that came through town, to the theater, or the dance hall. I was at every dance, every night club, listened to every band that came through, because in those days we didn't have MTV, we didn't have television.
I feel like every couple years MTV reinvents itself in some way, you know?
I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage of a 1970 tour I did in Holland. They didn't know what to make of my music, but they finally invented a name for it - world beat music.
I am truly blessed to have been a part of the MTV family for so long.
I guess I watch more MTV than you do. I'm a junkie for it.
I wouldn't say that I was ever a fan of MTV. I was a guy on MTV. I don't think I was ever in the demographic of people who watch MTV. I never really watched MTV, so I'm definitely not a fan of 'Jersey Shore' or anything.
MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how loose it was and how much fun it was in its looseness. And I was influenced a lot by that.