It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

I just want to be in the studio. When you've got all the gear you want in your own house, it's difficult to go out and do something else, you know?

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.