
Most studios in Memphis had a house set of drums; the drummers just brought their own sticks.

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.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

Garry Trudeau put me in the Doonesbury strip many years ago. So I've been a cartoon once.

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

I lived in a hotel across the street from Disneyland for a month.

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

I had been raised on country and western in Missouri. But gospel was great.