We just set it up and recorded it the way we played it. But that was the way we played it then.

It used to be said: As GM goes, so goes America. Now it's: As Starbucks goes, so goes America.

If zipper catches skin, I'll know I had it out when I should a kept it in.

Everybody was at the top of their game at that point, in the early '70s.

The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easygoing sound and strangle the life out of it.

I liked Jim Morrison a lot as a person. He was this very poetic character, and death was always on his mind. And it showed up in his songs - I mean, almost every song he wrote had something to do with dying. He was an American treasure that went way too soon.

God gives you a life and says, 'Okay, what are you going to do with it?'