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.

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 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.

Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good?

Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.

Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Father of the Republic, made it his great aim in his revolutionary leadership to secure freedom and equality of status for China among the nations of the world.

Happiness is a simple everyday miracle, like water, and we are not aware of it.

When someone compliments you, listen, but don't believe it. Praise or blame are immaterial. You know what you are.

Happy he who far from business persuits Tills and re-tills his ancestral lands With oxen of his own breeding Having no slavish yoke about his neck.

The Great Gatsby' [...] was my 'Tom Sawyer' when I was twelve [....]

I always said that the world is a better place because of Joey Ramone

I do think men fear female intuition.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.