Quotes from Dusty Hill

Eliminator' was a big, experimental thing.

When we did 'Eliminator,' at the time, it was experimental for us. It obviously turned out real successful, but at the time, we caught crap about it from some of our old fans. They thought we were deserting our roots or our old style or whatever.

In any relationship you have times where it gets tedious. But that becomes a strength. That you are able to hang around someone even when they get on your nerves.

When we were first approached with the idea to do videos, we said why not. We used the things that we do in our lives in the videos.

I'm a sex symbol. Is that wild? It blows me away. I mean, I've always known it, I just figured nobody else did.

People got to know us from hearing us live because there wasn't much publicity or radio airplay for a long time.

Being a musician in Texas had its own set of risks.

All we did was take what we were and brought it forward. We obviously had a great amount of pride in being from Texas.

Every album is unto itself, so whatever sounds we need to come up with, like way back when, we needed horns. So we invented the Lone Wolf Horns, and we learned how to play horns.

I'd go over to friends' houses and ask them to put on some Howlin' Wolf, and they wouldn't know what I was talking about. Then, when they would come over to my house, I'd play them some blues. Their parents wouldn't let them come back. The blues were still called 'race records' back then.

I mean, I get all the gratification in the world from doing a show. It's a great feeling.

I love the beards and the cars and the girls and the different guitars, but I'm not at all caught up in the image thing.

We were on the road playing when we started acquiring gold records.

Somehow it seems more clever to refer to something instead of saying it.

Actually, my mother turned me on to the blues. We had Lightnin' Hopkins as well as Elvis Presley records.

When I was younger, I'd listen to a song and take it literally. I'd think, Boy, what a drag. How horrible, he must be really bummin'.

A long time ago, you couldn't say what you mean in blues. You had to disguise it, and that's where the double entendres and humour comes from and that's where we come from.

I remember when our first album came out. After one of our gigs, we went across the border to Mexico and the band in the bar where we were was doing covers of our songs. I don't think they understood a word they were singing but they did the songs perfectly.

I have no hobbies, other than I travel a little and shoot skeet once in a while. I don't even hunt anymore.

We can't figure out why any time we play in the East, the critics either ignore us or write a pretty bad review of the show.

You don't have to play the blues to play rock 'n' roll, but that's where, somewhere along the line, your influences came from. I mean, I don't care where you got it from. If you got it from Eric Clapton, he got it from the blues.

It was the beginning of our second career. We certainly had a full career - 15 years at it - before it came out, but 'Eliminator' had a tremendous impact on us and the people who listen to us.

I don't know if it was a single-blade or one of those straight-edge razors, but I used to play in bands that were, like, show bands and would play different clubs, and, in those days, I would go to the barber twice a week.

In each city there are different favorites. Whatever we do, we'll come off the stage and somebody will ask how come we didn't do 'Pearl Necklace.' At the next town, it's something else we didn't do that they wanted to hear.