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 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'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.

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 grandfather used to say I don't care how you talk about me, good or bad, just don't leave me out of the conversation.

Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.

Led Zeppelin, they still rule the airwaves. I hear Zeppelin every day, and they've been around since '69. So the people who grew up with that still listen to that, and now their children listen to it.