Alan's publishing company was in the Brill Building, and of course, the Brill Building was where all the songwriters hung out because that's where all the publishers were.

The first amp I had back in the '50s was a small Fender.

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

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

People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.

The best thing that can come with success is the knowledge that it is nothing to long for.

Long before I achieved financial success and became the subject of a Hollywood film, I was a veteran, a single father, and a working person who was homeless.

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.