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" I'm usually going to make a record, finish a record, start a record or start a tour or between tours. "

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" Everything has added up to a load that I'm getting tired of carrying. It's gotten so complicated. It's the three failed marriages, and having kids that grew up without me, and it's the personal criticism, of being Mr. Nice Guy, or of divorcing my wife by fax, all that stuff, the journalism, some of which I find insulting. "

" There were 'big stars' at the Alamo! Bowie, Crockett! It is a huge political event because it, and the events at Goliad and San Jacinto, changed the look of a map of America. America would be a very different place if Texas had remained Mexican. "

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" All I set out to do was to earn a living playing drums, you know? And as luck would have it, I've surpassed that. "

" To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time. "

" To see a lot of the smaller labels disappear or get gobbled up by the bigger labels, that's a shame. It was a bit of a shock at first to see the demise of the record stores. "

" The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail. "

" There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music. "

" I never stopped thinking about the Alamo from that day to this. I'm a huge collector of memorabilia. I've got Davy Crockett's bullet pouch. I've got Colonel Travis's belt. "

" I've got one of four known Davy Crocket rifles. It's fantastic just to know it's one of the rifles that he actually used. His cousin had it. "