They are the key lynch pin within OPEC. They can control the price at any time.

The basic element here is the continued good level of compliance by OPEC. Since March, the numbers have come out as impressive in terms of restrained output.

It's about time. This was supposed to be a quick and easily executed merger. In other industries, these mergers do take years, but not in the oil industry.

If he was leaving he would have left a long time ago. They offered him, I'm sure, complete control a long time ago. Why would he want to leave? He does whatever he wants now. I wouldn't want to leave.

Alice asked me to his bus one time to sit me down and talk about how out of control I was during So Far, So What, and I kind of didn't want to hear it. I was like, 'but, but, but, I want to drink and I want to smoke. It's the rock 'n' roll dream. What are you talking about?' I appreciate it now. He just didn't want me to make the same mistakes he did.

We like to be able to control the distribution of 100 percent of our product 100 percent of the time. We don't want to depend on middle men. There is less-than-0-percent possibility that we'll change that philosophy in the near future.