When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
If you want to do rock and roll, forget about those who've come after '65.
I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.