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

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

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.

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

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.

Léon Bloy wrote: 'Life holds only one tragedy: not to have been a saint

I am not a juicy painter.

I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

We must reject the idea of isolationism, . But that doesn't mean we should get involved in every civil war around the world.

You have to stop in order to change direction.

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out.

It is the plain women who know about love; the beautiful women are too busy being fascinating.

Lamplighters are the guys who manually turned on all the street lamps in London and turned them off. That was the gig in the 1930s in London.

You're getting your weird all over me.

What happened to Darling’s face? (Kiara) It got his. Repeatedly. (Syn)