If I didn't like someone, I wouldn't want him calling me up when I was dying. I wouldn't want them having regrets that they didn't talk to me.

The bigger the show, the better I'd play. It was what I was waiting for, and I'd never get nervous.

You also get so wound up playing a show that a lot of people need something to bring them down. People who don't know how to handle the situation take drugs. I didn't. I went back to my room with milk and cookies.

I had a good career. I've been very fortunate.

That's the sound we developed, and that's how we played. It took us a while, but we found it.

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

Rock 'n' roll is meant to entertain. Hippie folk singers are supposed to be singing about leftist views, but I don't think rock 'n' roll was ever that way. I don't remember the early rock 'n' rollers ever expressing any political views.