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

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.

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

When you are there for people who dont need you. They make fun of you and make you a fool.

Whenever ego suffers from fear of death & your practice turns to seeing impermanence, ego settles down.

You cannot change a man . . . you can only change yourself.

One upside of the heat. Kind of cool to see a cat pant.

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial.

The only way to win is to work, work, work, work, and hope to have a few insights

Revolutionaries are more formalistic than conservatives.

A finished work is exactly that, requires resurrection.

The sun with one eye vieweth all the world.

They told me I gave the best milk mustache of anybody.