One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from..

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of has….

But I always loved songs with great lyrics..

I think my favorite album was probably Realization..

I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62..

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with….

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45..

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick..

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game..

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender..

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking ….

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind..

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it..

I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep….

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band..

If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues..

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time..

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I..

That rich guy you've been seeing, must have put you down. Welcome back baby, to the poor side of town..

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck..

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs..