I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.

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 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.

Until you make a destiny defining decision, you can't move from where you are to the rightful place you should be.

This would have once been a place for contemplation. He looked up at the towers surrounding him. Many of the dead bodies had been removed. Their places had been taken by the living.

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Jihad is nothing but making efforts to realise goodness in life.

Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.

It looked exhausting and pointless, two things that should be avoided at all costs

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

I don't like no confusion.

Be your own flying saucer! Rescue yourself!