Def Leppard frontman took part in a Q & A for Nights With Alice Cooper and was asked how he felt about being a big part of people’s lives. He responded “Well, I suppose it’s quite flattering, really. And it also sounds quite narcissistic to say this, but it’s all you kind of crave as a musician. You start out as a reneger watching other people do it and then if you’re lucky and actually start doing it, you wanna keep doing it forever, like Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, and Paul McCartney, and the Aerosmith’s and AC/DC’s and Bon Jovi’s of this world. It’s flattering, absolutely flattering. To be around for 42 years and still be able to sell the amount of tickets we sell and seem to be as important to people or the kind of regard that we’re held in, it’s an astonishing feat and it makes you feel kind of tingly and warm inside.”