Look at Gleason in The Honeymooners. He was humorous but the way he lived wasn't really humorous. He was a bus driver. Who wants to be a bus driver? He didn't have any money and he was not famous. But despite that, the show is humorous.
Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.
Led Zeppelin, they still rule the airwaves. I hear Zeppelin every day, and they've been around since '69. So the people who grew up with that still listen to that, and now their children listen to it.
There is no doubt in my mind who is number one - I have always been number one.
I'm a [Bob] Dylan freak, like everybody else.
[European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.
Pain I keep to myself; my music is for entertainment purposes and I always have that in mind.
I love Willy DeVille. He's very missed.
My father had a couple of Mitch Miller records and a Spike Jones record, and that was it. My older brother had two or three Elvis Presley singles, and that was about it. The rest of it I did on my own.
I figured if you want to get to where John Hammond is or Billy Gibbons is or Peter Wolf is, you have to start listening to the same stuff they did, and learn from that, and that's what I did.
I'm a big Marty Robbins fan. I love Marty Robbins. Of course, everybody does. That's not such a big shock.
How would you define [Bob] Dylan? You can't. That's a true artist. How about Ray Charles? Can you classify Ray Charles? No, you can't. He's just great, period.
I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.
I hate categories. Hank Williams is a great artist, period. Bob Dylan is a great artist, so is Marty Robbins. They just classify these people and put them in categories so they can sell the thing easier.
Every time you go in and make a record it is like a calling card, not so people can come and hear you live or are interested in your catalog.
I mean, you could have said Elvis Presley was new wave when it happened. I heard Willy DeVille and Tom Petty and to me they were new wave really because they were new.
I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.
Most of the time when we do a tune, Bad Blake, it's a tune no one's heard of to begin with.
The [2012 covers album] 2120 [South Michigan Ave.] was different. We covered a lot of classics there. But most of the time when we did it I always prided myself on digging up obscure songs that no one knew of.
Anything that's new wave is new. As far as punk rock goes, I've never really been exposed to any.
I saw the movie Sid & Nancy. It was a pretty good movie. It didn't really make me a punk rock fan. But anything that's new, as long as it's good I enjoy it.
They said my friends were just an unruly mob, and I should get a hair cut and get a new job.
I was a big J. Geils fan, a Steppenwolf fan and a Savoy Brown fan.
I really, really, really, really, really, really, really like girls.
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
