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

We think that there is this terrible idea that the kids are digital natives... and they know what they're doing, but all the evidence says that they're hanging around going, 'Where are you, I'm here, can I post my picture?' They're not actually writing wikis; they're not actually listening to great poets live.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

Once you establish a foundation of knowing what the greatest recording artists of all time were... Wouldn't you want your kids to know this stuff?

There's always going to be a percentage of the kids out there who want to hear people who can actually play and sing.

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.

I think music needs to be presented in a way so that kids can grasp songs, dances, simple music that's associated with some particular defining moment in human experience.

Kids don't go out and buy CDs, they make their own, they download them from the Internet.

I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.

It's easy enough to foist your music collection on your kids. Lectures are not required; you just play the stuff while they are prisoner in the back seat on a long drive, or softly in the background while eating dinner.