I like to believe that I play bass like Dusty Hill, and that's something nobody else can do as well as me. I'm the best Dusty Hill I know.

I was 19 or 20 the last time I shaved.

My impression of Las Vegas was in the movies and on TV. So we were all gonna go see somebody perform - I can't recall who it was - and we went out and rented tuxedos because I thought that's what you did in Vegas.

Even if I were to retire, I wouldn't shave. Everyone I know, including my wife, has never seen me without it.

If we ever have a problem, it's not comin' up with ideas. It's stoppin' us.

If there are people who admire us and what we do, that's a huge compliment. As long as it doesn't get too crazy.

Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

We all like each other. I know people ask us that, and I hate to disappoint them, but we get along great and we enjoy playing with one another, and what can I say? I'm as surprised as anyone else.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

I just love the idea of taking an elevator down to the stage, like Elvis did.

I have no hobbies, other than I travel a little and shoot skeet once in a while. I don't even hunt anymore.

I just like to play and I'm always ready to be back onstage.

I always had kind of a baby face, and when I started playing people didn't take me seriously.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

I mean, rock 'n' roll is based on the blues, whether people want to know that or not.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.

Billy's an interesting guy. He's got a lot of varied interests.

Legs' wouldn't be ‘Legs' unless it had that driving synth bass.

We got word that Mick Jagger heard our first album and liked it. And he wanted us to open for the Stones in Hawaii. That just blew us away. But the next thing I heard was that Stevie Wonder opened for them here in the States and actually got booed at one show. So I was scared to death.

We wrote ‘Tush' at a soundcheck in Alabama in about six or eight minutes.

Elvis Presley's Sun stuff - there's an album out in England with just about all those sides on it - you know, the sound of that upright bass slapping away: that's what I like to listen to. That and Richard Pryor, that is.

I'm a fan of Las Vegas and always have been, on many levels.

We are unique because we're the same three guys, and as Billy says, playing the same three chords.

We record a lot of our shows, we record our soundchecks.

I love recording and I love everything - videos, everything like that - but playing live is what does it for me.

We all write the lyrics together, but Frank really shines on 'em pretty good.

We brought what we liked from the real world into our videos.

The women really seemed to like ‘Rough Boy.'

We got pretty techno on 'Eliminator' and 'Afterburner,' which I enjoyed. I think they're good albums, but we wanted to start using the techno element a little more sparingly.

Basically we're a blues oriented rock 'n' roll band… easy to listen to.

I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.

Usually we're always working on something with this band a tour, making an album or a video or whatever. I don't have any desire to do anything outside this band, except play a movie part or something.

I think environment is more important to us than even equipment and the studio.

I love playing music and I'm serious about It. But It's not brain surgery.

We're serious musicians. And we dont want our shows to be circuses.

Our live shows are a visual as well as a musical experience.

No, I never envisioned the band lasting this long. But then again, I cant envision next week, even though I have a schedule.

I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the band in the bar where we were was doing covers of our songs. I don't think they understood a word they were singing but they did the songs perfectly.

A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.

I love the beards and the cars and the girls and the different guitars, but I'm not at all caught up in the image thing.

I think everybody would admit that we've got a sense of humor.

Selling a million records used to be a big deal. I guess it's not anymore.

It's always important for us to record, so if we're not performing live, that's what we're doing.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

It was the beginning of our second career. We certainly had a full career - 15 years at it - before it came out, but 'Eliminator' had a tremendous impact on us and the people who listen to us.

Some thought it strange that we incorporated synthesizers in our music but the equipment was there so we just figured out a way to use it.

If we found an ashtray in the studio, we'd try to play it and find a part for it in a song.

Nothing feels comfortable in rock 'n' roll.