I'm like everyone else, on the stage it's good. Not too much fun in the hotel or the airplane or the bus, but you got to do it.

I've always been playing with other people, and that's how I learned. I got a kit of drums I couldn't play, but I also knew a guitarist and a friend of mine played bass and could teach us bass, and we just played. And I learned.

Do you remember when everyone began analyzing Beatles songs..I don't think I ever understood what some of them were supposed to be about

I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.

The drummer's always going to be there. They're the floor of the whole deal and everyone can stand up on you.

For me, God is in my life. I don't hide from that... I think the search has been on since the '60s.

You got to pay your dues if you want to sing the blues...And you know it don't come easy.