Some guys record an album with songs that are filler. I recorded this album like it was my last.
My aunt played the piano and I used to sit and listen to it.
If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.
I became stereotyped.
What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be. They think it differently. They're not your blood. They're not your mind. You get in an argument.
I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul.
My father never put me on his lap and said he loved me.
As I'd go out learning to surf, I'd feel the power of waves coming over my body. It's like you're with God.
When I come onstage, I'm exploding.
They're putting cement dust into cattle feed to make the cows heavier; the FDA knows all about it.
I'm constantly being influenced by the soul that's directly in front of me.
Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.
Buddy Rich was one of the most incredible technicians in the world, on this planet, but the only people he could really impress, who knew what he was doing was another musician or another drummer.
I can play every instrument there is, every horn, I've played all the saxes and trumpets and everything and keyboards.
I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs.
As a little kid I had a girlfriend, and her boyfriend used to beat me up, so then I used to sing these songs, and that's what it's all about. Country music is all about your heart and your people and things like that.
My son now is 22 months old, he's been playing since he was 12 months old and he gets standing ovations on the drums. He's been with us since he was 10 weeks old, he's been on the drums. He's got blisters on his fingers before he can even talk.
People just loved the sound because I kept it simple.
I called it Rockabilly 'cause I was rocking the strums, which you're not supposed to do.
