Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.

Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.

After the Ed Sullivan Show, Feb. 9, 1964, at approx. 8:04pm [laughs], after that moment every album, every guitar, evey set of drums that was ever sold ... 10% should have gone right into their pocket!

I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.

My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.

My parents taught me what life is about, so I grew up the type they warned me about.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.