"Cheap Thrills was the only rock album cover I've ever done. I don't like rock 'n' roll music. In fact, I hate most of it. I did it because I kind of liked Janis Joplin. Plus, I really needed that $600.”

"To be interested in old music is to be a social outcast!"

"You play old records for most people, and, if they listen at all, after the record's over they turn to you and say 'So what is it you like about that old Music?' You just wanna throw up your hands."

"An added bonus to the great music is the wonderful art in the form of labels, record jackets, and advertisements which I collect and use in my work...to me these things were as beautiful as the frescoes in the Sistine Chapel."

"Music's really important: one of the most important things in a man's life. I get more out of music than I do out of art."

"I became curious about old records when I was out looking for old comics, old books and stuff like that. I always liked the music in old movies...My musical tastes gradually spread out from the 20's dance music to the Blues, then to American white Country Music, then Irish music, old Mexican music and now old-time French music...That was the Golden Age of Music! Why 1930? The reasons were complex and esoteric. There was a lot o work still for all kinds of musicians, dancing was popular...Electric mass media hadn't yet replaced live music, there was still a living rural culture with its rich regional diversity...There were hundreds of places that provided live music."

"I just like the old time stuff, before radio came along and changed music all around. Radio is what really did it, I decided. Radio just absorbed all the little, different, funky and obscure musical styles that were going on and made them into some big standardized styles. All these little oddball pockets of different styles of country music got blended together into Country', Western', and Bluegrass'. Before that there were all these different little variations...There are still some remnants of that left, but it's been standardized out."

"I didn’t know about old Blues, or Hillbilly music in the Fifties. But there was something in that rock and roll that I wanted to hear... something more. And then, when I discovered the music of the Twenties, that was the gold nugget that you could hear a little bit in Jerry Lee Lewis, or early Elvis, or Carl Perkins, or Little Richard, the nugget of the whole thing was in this music of the Twenties, it was a revelation."

"To escape the pressures of the fame bullshit attached to me by the comic book world, I started to play music. I like being part of a music gang and I had more in common with them as far as cultural intrests."