I have never not enjoyed playing. I want to go on. If you are into this stuff for the money, you are in for the wrong reasons.

There was no quality, no sound integrity. It was good for broadcasting political rallies or football games, but it had nothing to do with music, and nothing to do with making people who are coming to hear music happy.

We discovered the music was timeless.

In some ways, all of their money and effort for all of us paid off for them. It should work that way for everybody. Everyone who's come through that organization has made it somewhere because of them.

I'd been doing the Chicago theatre thing for years. The money was kinda good - thanks to a push by my old pal Capone, who, let's say, persuaded theatre owners to book me.

Listen to the lyrics - we're singing about everyday life: rich people trying to keep money, poor people tying to get it, and everyone having trouble with their husband or wife!