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

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.

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.

Psychotics, say what you want about them, tend to make the first move.

Extraordinary people always inspire others.

I was speaking without thinking about it first, not hesitating, just saying what I felt first.

If you're trying to find out what's coming next, turn off everything you own that has an OFF switch and listen.

You'll have many, many friends, but if your relationship with your mate is one hundred per cent of your heart, you'll never need a friend.

I'm having to cope with the fact that some people might consider me a musician.

The ends justify the means mindset has been the impetus behind many a cruel medical or social experiment.

Third, we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade, there will be unmistakable consequences.

In Fact, My Soul And Yours Are The Same, You Appear In Me, I In You.

I'd say that it's important for music to be there that gives you a challenge, that rearranges things in your head.