Being sued by your own record company, that's even better than receiving a Grammy

We don't build a record. We're taking a picture of it. We're not building an image; we're capturing an image.

Remember when you used to watch TV in the Sixties and you'd see Perry Como in a cashmere sweater? That's what rock 'n' roll is becoming. It's your parents' music.

It doesn't mean that much to me to mean that much to you.

I would play all the parts of the song, show them the way it went together. Then I'd basically break down an arrangement - I wouldn't plan endings or beginnings - so they knew everything that was going on. I had the lyrics on a prompter so that I could remember everything I'd written, and I was able to just get into the groove and play with them. I think "Peace Trail" is one of the exceptions, where it's a later take. It just happened really quickly.

The king is gone but he's not forgotten

I just do what I do. I like to make music