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We have a problem now with parents stealing their kids' CDs, so the roles have been reversed.

Kids are taking music for free all the time. They have Spotify, Pandora... The record companies aren't making the kind of music that they used to make. Artists make their money on tours, not from album sales.

Kids just want to have one song. They don't care about a body of work; they don't even care about a whole album - they just want whatever's hot right now. They download that song, and that's it.

Kids today don't know that much about vinyl.

Kids these days don't know as much about music as they think they do.

I buy DVDs. I don't really buy CDs unless they're for other people.

With the internet, things are so much more immediate. People taste-test things to see if they want to buy the CD.

I understand why some kid in his bedroom in Wisconsin thinks downloading songs couldn't hurt anyone. True fans will buy the CD or go see the movie after downloading, but to say it doesn't affect anyone - come on.

With iTunes and Spotify and Pandora and this and that, you don't need to buy CDs any more.

For the most part, rock fans don't go and buy CDs any more, very rarely. It's pretty much about downloads and streaming.