I'm a fan of Las Vegas and always have been, on many levels.

Elvis Presley's Sun stuff - there's an album out in England with just about all those sides on it - you know, the sound of that upright bass slapping away: that's what I like to listen to. That and Richard Pryor, that is.

We wrote ‘Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.

We got word that Mick Jagger heard our first album and liked it. And he wanted us to open for the Stones in Hawaii. That just blew us away. But the next thing I heard was that Stevie Wonder opened for them here in the States and actually got booed at one show. So I was scared to death.

Legs' wouldn't be ‘Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

Billy's an interesting guy. He's got a lot of varied interests.

Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

I always had kind of a baby face, and when I started playing people didn't take me seriously.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I have no hobbies, other than I travel a little and shoot skeet once in a while. I don't even hunt anymore.

I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

We all like each other. I know people ask us that, and I hate to disappoint them, but we get along great and we enjoy playing with one another, and what can I say? I'm as surprised as anyone else.

Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

If there are people who admire us and what we do, that's a huge compliment. As long as it doesn't get too crazy.

If we ever have a problem, it's not comin' up with ideas. It's stoppin' us.

Even if I were to retire, I wouldn't shave. Everyone I know, including my wife, has never seen me without it.

My impression of Las Vegas was in the movies and on TV. So we were all gonna go see somebody perform - I can't recall who it was - and we went out and rented tuxedos because I thought that's what you did in Vegas.

I was 19 or 20 the last time I shaved.

I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.