If things are going slow, I'm itchy.

If you give it good concentration, good energy, good heart and good performance, the song will play you.

By the time The Band did The Last Waltz, the chemistry had changed, and it wasn't a thrill anymore to live that studio kind of life.

I'm not in it for my health. I'm a musician and I wanna live the way I do.

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

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.

Those bad times are important. They give you a chance to practice, listen, take stock, have a life, get your feet back on the ground, and maybe you'll live to tell the story.