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?

You keep lyin' when you ought to be truthin'.

What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.

I have never been accepted. I'll never make the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They're never going to let me in.

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!

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 successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.