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" I've been more and more into production lately, and I really, really love that. I love recording. "

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" When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain. "

" 'Southern Accents,' I think that's one of my best, really. That would have been 1984, and I wrote that on the piano in the studio at home. I had a studio, and I just happened to be down there in the middle of the night. It was quite late, probably early morning, and I just started to play, and a song just started to appear. "

" I could come home, and I would spend the rest of the night just lying on the floor or the sofa listening to albums. It was like a movie to me. I still do, really, and doing the radio show ensures that I'll be sitting there listening. "

" I'm barely prolific and incredibly lazy. "

" When you get on the back side of your 60s, most people aren't working. "

" Making a record? You've got to have the song, then you create a record. I think it's the same with a live performance. If the material is strong, you're already 90% there. I always tell young people it's all about the music, the songs. Work on the songs, work on the songs, work on the songs. "

" Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success. "

" My family wasn't involved in the college. They were more of just your 'white trash' kind of family. And so I have that kind of background, but I always kind of aspired to be something else, and I made a lot of different friends over the years that were passing through. "

" I didn't think you could just become a rock and roll singer. "

" When I was a kid, we didn't have any blues stations. I never heard Howlin' Wolf or Muddy Waters or any of those people until the Stones had come along, and I took it upon myself to find out who these people were that they were covering. "

" The radio has so many rules, and songs don't. You don't necessarily write to a rule book unless you're, like, just doing it professionally, which has never been my thing. "

" I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television. "

" What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life. "

" I would never put my songs in a commercial. "

" If you're not getting older, you're dead. "

" You get into your late fifties, people start falling like flies all around you. I don't take life for granted any more. I'm really glad to be here. "

" Rock isn't a young music anymore. I don't think it's necessarily even a youth-oriented music. "

" I've never had any idea that what I like would resonate with the audience, and I'm pleasantly surprised when it does. "

" Most things I worry about never happen anyway. "

" Rock n' roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the 'roll' and called it 'rock,' which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands. How could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling. "

" I think that if people realize that with an mp3, you're only getting five percent of the sound that's there. But when you hear the entire thing... I think it would save the music business. It's such a drastic change. "

" I tend to write on an acoustic guitar or the piano. I have kind of a rule: if I can't sit down and play this and get the song over, I don't take it to the band, because most any good song, you can sit down and deliver it with a piano or a guitar. "

" The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me. "

" I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy. "

" The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit. "

" It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music. "

" When I decided to be a musician I reckoned that that was going to be the way of less profit, less money. I was sort of giving up the idea of making a lot of money. It was what I loved to do. I would have done it anyway. If I'd had to work at Taco Bell I'd have still been out at night trying to play music. "

" I don't treat the band like I'm above them or that they're a hired hand for me. We've never worked that way. So I'm a team player. I would be very uncomfortable having to do this alone. "

" Sometimes, giving up your privacy is a little like going to the dentist and we have let him have access that no one's ever had. "

" I love doing my 'Buried Treasure' show. "