One thing will lead to another and somebody will come up with a riff or a line or something we build from.

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

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.

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

I took care of myself. Basically I'm a vegetarian, I run every day, I exercise. I kind of control my living habits. I try to get a good night's sleep every night, I don't stay up all night and do all that stuff.

I was rooming with Jimmy Bowen at the time, doing some gigs, then I went back to New Orleans and played there in '62.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.