My papa said son don't let the man getcha and do what he done to me.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

For years I walked around with the phrase "Green River" because I had seen that on a soda fountain drink when I was probably 8 or 9 years old, and I went, 'Gee, I like that.' Another one was "Lodi", which I thought sounded really cool. I got this cheap little empty plastic notebook at my local drugstore, and bought a little slab of filler paper and the very first title I wrote in it was "Proud Mary". I had no idea what that title meant.

All these different groups of people that are put right in the path of billions of dollars of American tax payers' money. If I had enough time I could have named all of those people [in the song], too! The song would have been 400 minutes long.

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

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?