It's amazing that we've been able to put up with each other for 35 years. Most marriages don't last that long these days.

I guess it was amazing that I was able to shoot redhead ducks in back-to-back seasons. Skip says a man is lucky if he can go and kill one (redhead) in a lifetime around here, so he really didn't believe me when I came back and told him about the second one last year.

I think it was 'Tales of Topographic Oceans' on 8-track that was the funniest thing because it would fade out in the middle of a song and fade back in again, and when the tracks change, it was quite amusing.

Being called a 'music legend' is a very funny thing. It's nice to know that my work has been appreciated and that people have given me that status. On a personal level, however, I can't think about it too much. It means a lot... but then it doesn't.

The Beatles had a six-year career, from 1963 to 1969, which - to me, in my early 20s - seemed like a phenomenally long time.

Yes is what I like doing more than anything else. Somewhere along the way, as people came and went, it fell to me to kind of keep it going and oversee the spirit of the enterprise, as it were.