I got tired of playing other people's songs.

Clapton asked my brother to play on his record. I thought that was the most wonderful thing in the world.

As they say in the bible, that you're supposed to rejoice when people die and mourn when they're born, because it's one of the most painful acts you go through in life, is being born, and dying.

I left home the day after I graduated from high school because I knew we weren't going to make any dough to pay the rent in music.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

I said, other people can write songs, let's see if I can. So the first 400 or 500 wound up on the floor somewhere. Then I wrote one called Melissa.

I got tired of playing other people's songs.