My parents wanted me to be smart and be a scholar, and the best I could do was graduate high school.

I've had all the lessons I could get. I've learned from everybody I've ever met.

Conway Twitty was always our local hero while I was growing up. He had a series of good bands. I wanted to sit in, if Conway would let me. And he did a couple of times.

Drums usually seem to tune themselves.

Good times don't last long sometimes.

The rock star stuff never came up for us. The Band was never attacked by groupies before, during or after any show that we ever played.

I don't fool with a lot of things that I can't have fun with. There's not much reward in that.