The Big Band Era is my era. People say, 'Where did you get your style from?' I did the Big Band Era on guitar. That's the best way I could explain it.

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive

Curiosity provoked me to lay a lot of our country stuff on our predominantly black audience and some of our black audience began whispering "who is that black hillbilly at the Cosmo?"

Actually I'm writing as best I can, in order to keep the momentum and the career there, but I want to live.

Could you imagine the way I felt, I couldn't unfasten her safety belt. All the way home I held a grudge, for the safety belt that wouldn't budge.

Rock is rock, and, rock and roll, rock is just short for rock and roll.

Up come a flat top, he was movin' up with me.