When I came back to California in the early '60s I was hanging out with Jimmy Bowen, Phil Spector, and I wanted to be a record producer and work with other artists.

Beware of pretty faces that you find, a pretty face can hide an evil mind.

But I always loved songs with great lyrics.

My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.

Even Woodstock turned out to be a disaster. Everybody was stuck in the mud and people got sick.

All summer long we spent dancin' in the sand, and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

I was working at this club in downtown L.A. from four to eight at night, just Eddie Rubin, the drummer, and I.

The web site and the Internet are a whole new ball game.

I think after 1970 or so, after I sold Soul City, I took off for awhile and didn't do too many gigs.

About two months into the Whisky, I borrowed some money and rented a remote recording truck.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

You need to have the means to impose yourself

The antidote to joy is dread.

A perfect night... a perfect forever

We believe in humility and integrity, the spirit of one people, bound together under God. We understand that the Constitution was written to control and regulate the government, not the people.

Life is not about creating an unreal existence. People should be challenged to find something cool about the mundane.

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them.

The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.

The Church, wherever it is, is not only Christ's witness to its own people and nation, but also the home-base for a mission to the ends of the earth.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.