Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down my….

A little mordida, here. A little mordida, there..

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country..

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade..

If you do right, everything will come out right..

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again..

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues..

John R. told me you don't work for the radio station. You work for the people out there..

I taught myself to tune in to another persons wavelength, figure out what they were looking for, and try to project that thing back at them..

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be..

I know it sounds corny, man, but I like to bring folks joy, and I like to have a good time. I know folks like to be with somebody who's having a good….

Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley..

I never prayed for no money, and I never prayed for no fame. I said, 'I'll take care of that myself. You just keep me healthy and I'll do all I can t….

I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money..

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them..

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity..