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In the 1970s, for all the Stevie Wonders, I'm sure there were five artists that were making forgettable music.

I think too many artists from my era tend to just stamp out a record.

I'm a big fan of '70s records where artists could draw on whatever influences they wanted.

Many artists give up after a while.

The artists in country music who stopped having hits are the ones who were led into something that wasn't them.

There are thousands of very, very talented artists who will never be known, even after they are dead.

I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.

I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen.

Where I came from in the country, there was no place to hear pop music like Little Richard and people like that. Later, I heard James Brown, Otis Redding, The Drifters, The Four Aces, The Ink Spots.

The best artists are gone now.