If you took a little of Sam Cooke and a little of Little Richard, and poured it in a jar and shook it up and poured it out you would get Otis Redding.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

I'm one of those guys who likes to piddle around in the garage and fix stuff.

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.