I've been gone on the road for the past three years; maybe I've been home for two or three weeks in a year. I literally live - it's like one of those old movies where they show a train, and pages of a calendar are peeling away like leaves, and then there's a picture of me with gray hair.

I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

It's strange what desire will make foolish people do.

I put on music and I'm washing my car. And I put on music if you have somebody and you're trying to make love. You put that on in the background and you go, maybe this will be romantic.

I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?

I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.

The '50s was a pretty wonderful time for people, it was hopeful.