The Columbia years are the most sentimental for me. My parents were together through most of that time and we were a happy, sort of normal family.

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

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

These boots were made for walking, that's just what they'll do. One of these days these boots are going to walk all over you.

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.

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.