I was originally like a punker, know what I mean, like the punks are today, I'd spit in a minute.

Johnny Guitar... just one of my favorite singers of all time. I met him when we were both on the road with Johnny Otis in the '50s when I was a teenager. We traveled the country in a car together.I would hear him sing every night.

I figured I could do "It's A Man's, Man's, Man's World" because I believe it's the truth.

I'm not a bourgeois person, never will be.

This is an album of songs that I've always loved, tunes that I heard. For the first time in 53 years of recording, I really had control over an entire album, start to finish.

I sing the songs that people need to hear.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.