Yeah, Lynyrd Skynyrd, I knew all them guys.

I didn't really get any success till I was 30 years old. I played music when I was young fella, but I didn't really get any success till I was about 30 years old.

People are familiar with my songs, especially through Eric Clapton. But I have a hard time drawing a crowd, because I have been a songwriter.

All record companies want big-selling records, and my music is a little too raw for commercial success.

There are entertainers and there are musicians, and I never was an entertainer.

I was mainly a songwriter; I really wasn't much of a performer.

Oh, I'm not a very good singer, and that's 'cause I was always embarrassed about my singing.

If you write songs long enough, you run out of material that's original to yourself.

That's one of the problems in being a songwriter and living a long time. What you eventually end up doing is you start imitating yourself.

Probably the only thing that I really don't like about being an old guy is so many of the people who understand what we know are gone.

Yes, I've been down the pike and back. And through the years, I've heard different songs with scatting in it, and it was - always cracked me up as kind of a funny style of music, you know? When I did it, it kind of cracked me up as a comedy kind of routine.

I consider myself a songwriter... I guess the business end is my songs and the fun part is playing the guitar.

I'm a great believer in freedom of speech.

I've always enjoyed being a Gypsy.

Send me the money and let the younger guys have the fame.

Clapton was just picking up ideas. He picked up some of mine like I picked up some from the people before me.

I stopped a lot of people who wanted to shove me into the real big time. Your ego wants to say, 'Hey, I'm somebody, man,' but I knew there were many days when I just wanted to be John Cale.

I think it goes back to me being a recording mixer and engineer. Because of all the technology now you can make music yourself and a lot of people are doing that now. I started out doing that a long time ago and I found when I did that I came up with a unique sound.

I've never sold a lot of records.

What's really nice is when you get a check in the mail.

I'm so old, I can remember before rock 'n' roll come along.

I remember when I made my first album, I was 32 or 33 years old and I thought I was way too old then.

Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing. So I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business.

I'm not a household name.