I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

I wasn't accepted because I didn't accept the drug culture that most of my peers were involved in. Now it's like a locked room.

I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

Morrissey wrote to me and said, I have a song for you and if we release it as a single, you'll be on the charts for the first time since 1972, I said, what time, where?

I was singing about six notes higher than I had to, in a range that kept me up in a bubblegum sound.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.