I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.

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 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.

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.

All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.

I can muster up the courage in the difficult situations to get me through.

Your physical capabilities have nothing to do with higher consciousness. The depth achieved in any posture only has the ability to hurt or help your body.

To my precious members, who I hope to be with forever, I love you and thank you so much.

I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people.

Of course the sexiest thing a girl can do is not complain about her body.

When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk.

Since people no longer attend church, theater remains as the only public service, and literature as the only private devotion.

When a man lies he murders some part of the world. These are the pale deaths men miscall their lives.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.