We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

I think the acts today get too much money. I really do. They wind up blowing it all anyway. It's silly to give children that much money.

I started out as an opportunistic renegade. By now, I've lasted long enough to become sort of an American Original Respectable Renegade.

We are put on this earth to have a good time. This makes other people feel good. And the cycle continues.

Two thousand years from now they'll still be hearing about Elvis Presley.

From 1958 to 1964, that's real rock n' roll. Then the Beatles hit and everyone sounded like them.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there. We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.