If you're going to get into music, you've got to learn the 12-bar blues.

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

What I really remember is that people camped out everywhere, and the fact everybody expected it might turn into a big nightmare with all sorts of hassles because back in those days everybody was smoking pot and taking acid.

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

When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.