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

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

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.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.

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

I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

​Till mirrors were Invented, Face was not You, Not Even part of Your Performance.

Pleasure is the Root of All Good

It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.

The heart, like the stomach, wants a varied diet.

The dream begins, most of the time, with a teacher who believes in you.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

..we were always taught, instead of waiting to be swept off our feet, to 'expect little, forgive much'.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

My poems please the brave: My poems, short and sincere, Have the force of steel Which forges swords.

Once you learn the art of relaxation, everything happens spontaneously and effortlessly.