I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.
When you start to analyze [rock 'n' roll], it's only because you don't understand it. You're just not connecting with it once you have to start analyzing it.
Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.
I have to accept the fact that I was putting out records that reviewers were going to get an image from.
I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.