Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

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.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

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.