As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

The three of us pitched in $15,000 a piece to get it started.

There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.

I went over to say hi to Rob and he introduced me to Wayne and Fred. I had made a radical purchase of some brown Beatle boots. Wayne was like 'Where did you get those boots! Who is this guy?

I had just broken up with my wife so I was searching for another way to live.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

Nothing ever sounds quite the way it does when you're standing right in the middle of it.

The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.

We had all these things to deal with - houses full of people and John going to jail, guys from New York saying 'don't worry about anything.' So it was really confusing.

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.