As I get older... I start to realize that life ain't half bad. Each year, I'm amazed that I'm still alive. I don't take any of this for granted, I'm a lucky dude.

I love to play music. So why endanger that with something like drugs?

The whole slacker generation totally didn't apply to us musically.

When digital technology started becoming the norm, you've got 50, 60, 70 years of recordings on tapes that are just deteriorating. Like, a two-inch reel of recording tape won't last forever. It dissolves. It will disappear.

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

When I sit down to interview people, I don't hold questions and I don't know the answers. They're more like conversations that become lessons.