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I think what makes the Byrds stand up all these years is the basis in folk music. Folk music, being a timeless art form, is the foundation of the Byrds. We were all from a folk background. We considered ourselves folk singers even when we strapped on electric instruments and dabbled in different things.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

I really dig The Byrds. I think they are the most underrated - in their original form - pop group.

I loved playing the stuff we did in the Byrds. It was a good band. I was lucky to be in it.

The original Byrds were very much Beatles-influenced, and then we gradually got our own sound. We started mixing things together more.

I was a lucky kid. You could have got 10 kids to be in The Byrds who were better than I was.

Obviously the people that I admired, like the Beatles, were really into rock'n'roll, but it was already a little past rock'n'roll when I started listening and making my own choices about music.

Rock n' Roll came from the slaves singing gospel in the fields. Their lives were hell and they used music to lift out of it, to take them away. That's what rock n' roll should do - take you to a better place.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

It was the early days of Rock 'n' Roll in this country. We were all struggling to learn music, it might be Country, Jazz, Classical, Blues or even Rock 'n' Roll.