I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.
But back then the thing that saved me was the music, and it's certainly the music that saves me now. The music, my family and my friends and everybody around me.
I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.
Dummy Dum Dum was my nickname for years at school. I was the strange one of the family, the one who couldn't remember his name.
It was a source of shame for my family that I was in rock and roll, which is so blue-collar. It just isn't done. And I felt it, too.
I get my voice from my mother's side of the family. My mother and my grandmother both had strong voices.
I don't like the royal family, I don't like the establishment, I don't like the civil service.
I started imagining this whole different world. It was a society of musicians, a family I hoped I could belong to one day.
My family are too grounded, and I will go home to visit. I always need my dose of Liverpool to keep me grounded.
I don't feel one's personal medical condition is everybody's business. It just isn't something you advertise, and it's not open to discussion.
When 'You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling' hit, we were doing a show called 'Shindig!' and the Righteous Brothers suddenly became big business.
I was brought up in the modern world of all the luxury and the highlight of show business. I was born into a Christian home.
The problem is that I don't want to add another record to the world that is not necessary to be published, except to make some business. There has to be a musical reason.
A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
I don't think there's any such thing as rock n' roll anymore - it's an amalgamation of business interests.
You want women to think of you in a sexy manner. It's all part of the business. It drives ticket sales. It's all a part of it.
My show business career doesn't mean I can't write a symphony. It just means I was never asked to write one.
Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.
If you can play live and support yourself, it's one of the few ways you're going to actually get paid in this business these days.
I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
Everything around a writer, or musician in the record business, probably everything in all the United States or in all of western civilization, is about competition.
