Race in this country is still the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss.

We've always just gotten up there and played. We don't have any dancers, we don't have all that stuff going on, we just get up there and play.

When I was a kid and I bought a record, I ripped that thing open, I wanted to know who was playing what, what studio it was cut at, who was the string arranger, who was the engineer.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

Eventually you're going to have a digital transfer anyway when you make a CD, so it doesn't matter as long as what you're hitting first is what you want it to be.

My first guitar, a Fender Jazz Master, I traded it in for a Les Paul Deluxe.

If you heard my records and no one told you, I don't think you'd know whether it's a band or one guy.