I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.
Keep it in tune with the times, but don't write with the specific purpose of trying to create a hit. If you're doing it strictly to make money, you're crazy. There are easier ways to make money.
I saw the Stones three years ago at the Wiltern Theater in L.A. and that was mind blowing.