Touch the earth, speak of love, walk on common ground.

As most of the population suffers through life, barely surviving, disappointed and confused day after day, hopeless, wondering what happened to their strong and beautiful country, it is in the medias power to restore, if not some of our quality of life, at least a bit of our peace of mind.

The first rule of rock and roll is it's all about live. Then you have to learn a second craft, which is making records. It should go in that order.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist.

You gotta love everything you do. You just gotta do it.

We never understood the concept of people going onstage and giving anything less than 100 percent. Maybe that's a blue-collar work ethic, but I call it just ethics.

The quality of our lives is diminished every time we lose a great artist. It's a different world without Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Curtis Mayfield, Brian Jones and the rest.