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1. Eliminator’ was a big, experimental thing.
2. People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn’t much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.
3. The videos have given us a younger audience. You know, our audience grew up with us until the videos, and they were beginning to get a little long in the tooth. Then the videos came along, and now we’ve recaptured the 16-year-old girls. The 16-year-old girls!
4. They say you look ten pounds heavier on TV, but it makes your beard look longer.
5. I mean, rock ’n’ roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.
6. Even if I were to retire, I wouldn’t shave. Everyone I know, including my wife, has never seen me without it.
7. I love recording and I love everything — videos, everything like that — but playing live is what does it for me.
8. If we ever have a problem, it’s not comin’ up with ideas. It’s stoppin’ us.
9. Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.
10. We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.
11. I always had kind of a baby face, and when I started playing people didn’t take me seriously.
12. In each city there are different favorites. Whatever we do, we’ll come off the stage and somebody will ask how come we didn’t do ‘Pearl Necklace.’ At the next town, it’s something else we didn’t do that they wanted to hear.
13. Every album is unto itself, so whatever sounds we need to come up with, like way back when, we needed horns. So we invented the Lone Wolf Horns, and we learned how to play horns.
14. I love playing music and I’m serious about It. But It’s not brain surgery.
15. Listen to really old blues guys and how they weren’t allowed to sing about what they meant; they alluded to things. I find that style amusing, and I think it’s a little harder to write.
16. They sent us the script of ‘Back to the Future III’ and we wrote ‘Doubleback’ for it.
17. We can’t figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.
18. I think everybody would admit that we’ve got a sense of humor.
19. A lot of your rock people, even early, like Elvis, have always come from the South.
20. Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.