My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda.

It's a great relationship when you can work with the person who you consider to be your soul mate.

Rock and roll hoochie koo, lawdy mama, light my fuse.

If my musical tastes are continuing to grow up, and I am not really too interested in the music that my kids listen to, then I assume that the audience is doing the same.

So, after awhile, you can only get so much happiness from a guy who's drunk come up and tell you you're great.

I started The McCoys in 1962, so I'm approaching my 40th year in the entertainment business.

I just really longed to do music that reflected me as an adult and music that I thought was for other adults.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

Because I was successful over the years, I never had the opportunity to do the stuff I really wanted.

This Classic Rock 'n Blues Tour / Hippiefest roster promises a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see some of the best, legendary artists of our lifetime. I can't wait to be a part of it.

I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.

Sometimes, it is best that the past stays buried.

Nothing perhaps is strange once you have accepted life itself the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

why be bothered with other people's set-ups? it only leads to torture.

I'm not going to put my energy into dunking every time I get the ball. That's stupid.

I always think it's useful to get an outside opinion.

What does it say about our churches today that God birthed the church in a prayer meeting, and prayer meetings today are almost extinct?

You know what? Joy is the only guide. I'm going to have fun regardless.

Diplomacy is letting someone else have your way.

My bones are brittle, my heart weak and erratic, my esophagus and stomach riddled with ulcers, my reproductive system shot, my immune system useless... I'm not going to have a happy ending.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.