Even today when I go there I hear the difference on the radio in that part of the country as compared to anywhere else.

Acceptance. Prayer. Health. Give and take. Patience. Love. Just like it is with anybody else in the world, except we're together on a bus.

It's pretty easy. I got a great job. We didn't get into the music business so we'd be big stars and rich. We got into it because we loved music. We found this desire to play and it was like, 'Wow.' We do it to please ourselves. When we please ourselves, the fans dig it and everything goes better. It's not hard to go out and do something you love every night.

It's not about the horns, it's about the songs.

The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time.

The hotel itself was something of a microcosm of the country at the time, reflecting the racial divisions in the U.S. at the time and how divided people were about Vietnam, ... It was important if you were a 19-year-old man at the time that Bobby Kennedy was elected president because his promise was to get us out of the war rather than escalate it.