But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

I'd gone through periods where I didn't work live performances for probably seven or eight months at a time.

Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.