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When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.

I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they didn't like music. They didn't trust musicians. They wanted something else from it.

CNN canceled all the shows I was on. They're going in a different direction, but that's their privilege. They own the business.

If it wasn't for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He's the one who found us at Pinocchio's in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.

I was a Skynyrd fan all along. But I was also the brother of the lead singer who passed on. I just didn't want to do anything that would harm the band's name.

The music business looks like, you know, innocent schoolboys compared to the TV business. They care about nothing but profit.

I was 8 years old when I started listening to Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company and Led Zeppelin.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

We try and stay out of the corporate side of it. The band has never compromised. At some point in our career we could have made a certain type of record and sold millions of units, as they are called.

Everybody in Lynyrd Skynyrd loves different styles of music, and our minds are very open when it comes to writing our songs and making the band true to what the band is, but also stepping out and doing something current.