When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

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

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

Big train from Memphis, now it's gone gone gone, gone gone gone. Like no one before, he let out a roar, and I just had to tag along.

That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.

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

What happens is, especially when I was writing for my band, Creedence, and it's the way I write now, I go into "guitar lick" mode. When I do, it sort of leads into a real song. I'd say to myself, your songwriting is coming up with a guitar lick, and the rest is easy!