John Fogerty

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.