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

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

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

My ears won't fool me. Even when I do a session on digital, we still warm it up somewhere in the process, in mastering or mixing, running the signal through some tubes somewhere.

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.