Todd Rundgren

“My audience is my primary concern, and I’m not going to change my show for anybody.”

“I learned how to do everything because I had to. I had to be a producer and a writer and a singer and a guitar player.”

“I'm always trying to do things that I've never done before.”

“I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a serious message, I would probably be a painter or a sculptor.”

“I'm not a nostalgic person. I'm not a person who looks back. I'm always looking forward.”

“You can't just be a musician; you have to be an entertainer.”

“New ideas are always resisted. And the bigger the idea, the more the resistance.”

“I'm a musician. I'm not a celebrity. I'm not a rock star. I'm a musician.”

“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

“I don't think music is my career. I think it's my hobby.”

“I don't make records for critics. I make records for my fans.”

“I've always been more interested in the future than in the past.”

“The whole point of collaboration is that you give and take from each other, and that's how you create things that are totally new.”

“Technology is a tool, and it should be used to make things better.”

“Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.”