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Hard rock will always be hard rock, but you don't really know what is rock - and what isn't - anymore. I don't consider a lot of the pop things I hear on the radio to be rock n' roll. It's just kind of fragmented.

I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.

There are plenty of people in the world who have tried to be rock stars and have not gotten there.

I was a sort of rock journalist - whatever that is - in London in the late '60s.

I had had some successes in the '90s, always made money, but the truth was I was like a man pushing a boulder up a hill. A huge, heavy, difficult boulder made up of some career mistakes, projects that didn't meet expectations, and twenty years of being a known quantity.

Rock in the mainstream culture has lost a lot of its mojo.

Rock and roll's relatively new, in the sense of the Fifties, Sixties, right? They invented the first sort of rock stars, and they took it to excess, and then the excess became bitter, tormented. Then it became okay to succeed.

I am, of course, a frustrated rock star - I'd much rather be a rock star than a writer. Or own a record shop. Still, it's not a bad life, is it? You just sit at a computer and make stuff up.

I have always felt I was more accurately a Hard Rock musician.

There's room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.