I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River...And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

Vanz can't dance, but he'll steal your money.

Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.