If you do right, everything will come out right.

I am just a little tired of the Stones and the Beatles, and I don't care if I ever hear 'Louie Louie' ever again.

My existence went up about 12 levels of intensity.

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

I figure the oldies are real close to what rocking country use to be.

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.

My fake Japanese was smooth enough to earn me the title of 'The Emperor of Pleasing Graciousness' in that country.