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.

I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.

Not to this extent but from day one I had an awful lot of confidence when I got started.

On the day I was born, the nurses gathered around, to gaze in wide wonder at the joy they had found.

I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.

I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.

I guess a good song is a good song is a good song, ya know.