Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.
My songs are like cheap Neil Young copies.
When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know it at the time; I was just doing my best.
Every single band in the world has these gigantic songs that people are obsessed with.
To think that when they come out with these gigantic songs, it's pretty tough to top them, you know.
So, it ended up being what you have there, seven songs brand new and ten live songs which is a good mix.
Kids know me from their Grease DVD, so they instantly respond. You can hear a pin drop when I do my old songs.
I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.
United Artists wanted to do records with me. I had no idea, what a rare thing that was... to make an album. And they put a guy with me working on songs, and I got busy with films. I just kind of let it slide. Isn't that amazing?
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.
That was the reasoning behind learning to play bass, and then after that it was more like it was neat to play songs together - for me to play bass and for him to play guitar.
If it were bad songs, yeah, I'd speak up, but they're not bad songs.
I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.
After that I didn't listen to music as much because '70s music just wasn't... I remember all the songs, but it wasn't because I was into them, you know what I mean?