Guys like Otis Blackwell and Bobby Darin, and all the guys who were writing songs for Elvis at the time, just hanging around, writing songs, talking about music.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

No matter how challenging the ensuing process may become at times, the inner light and love in the human heart always has the power to dispel darkness and ignorance.

Let us have no guiltLeft to wasteFor dreaming still.

Every man must find out for himself in what particular fashion he can be saved.

I live wherever you are cos honestly there's no better place to call home

Beauty, whether moral or natural, is felt, more properly than perceived.

Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that.

...and the night is so deep and dark that I wonder if the sun will ever come up.

Sustainability has become an ornament.