Quotes from Derek Trucks

My earliest memories are of traveling from Jacksonville, Florida, to visit my uncle and his family in Tallahassee.

When you think about your heroes, it absolutely shapes how you play and who you are.

He was very sweet, but just his persona was intimidating. He was Gregg Allman. I think a lot of people had that feeling when they met him.

It's funny, sometimes life just comes down to bringing a little bit of light to somebody when you can.

My favorite artists are able to take things to the edge or just over the edge. Miles Davis and Duane Allman, for example. It's about not playing too many notes. Those guys had lots of phases to their careers, but they always played with economy and intelligence.

But every so often we'll get to this place where everyone in the room is fully focused on what's happening. You see it happens in sports sometimes, when there's a really important moment. It's a great thing when you can get to those places, when you look up you don't see a bunch of phones out.

I used a '57 Les Paul on one track, 'These Walls', which features Alam Khan on sarod. I tuned it way down because the sarode is naturally in C but I tuned the guitar down to D and he came up to D. It was all a pretty simple setup.

It was pretty surreal because The Allman Brothers' 'Eat A Peach' and 'Live At The Fillmore East', and the Eric Clapton 'Layla' record was the music I grew up hearing all the time.

You can remember almost every Elmore James solo by heart because he was playing songs. Nothing's wasted. Nothing's throwaway.

When you're co-leading a band with someone whose career is bigger than your own, like with my wife Susan, it's different. You have to agree on things musically. It took months for it to come together.

When you do a different city every night, it's easy to repeat things. There are songs you want to play for people and get excited about so you don't always switch things up.

It's always nice with two guitarists in one band to have some contrast.

The Allman Brothers Band has a long, storied history and I wouldn't count them out. It's just not in the cards for me.

But I don't pretend I earned a Lifetime Achievement Award.

A lot of the gear came out of some of the old studios here in New York City. We picked up a lot of old microphones, reverb tanks, tape machines, so yeah, we try to record the old way, which takes more time and energy, but it certainly feels better when you're getting to the end of the process of making a record.

When you're producing your own record, you do your best to be objective and take a step back from it from time to time.

I remember a festival we did in Denmark with the Clapton band where you suddenly realize it's an actual band - and you're on an equal stage playing music together.

People have a tendency - you let your ego get in the way of the big moments.

The one thing the Allman Brothers Band does not do is phone it in. They bring it every night and that's something I draw from.

I was nine when I bought my first guitar at a garage sale.

And you can't have an Allman Brothers gig without an Allman brother. I've heard people try to argue that you can, but I'm not buying it.

My grandfather's from Pinson, Alabama, all the Truckses came from there.

To be part of the Allmans for 15 years was a huge honor. I mean, it's a legendary band. I got to be around a lot of people and make a lot of great music.

We got our old Neve recording console, it was owned by The Kinks for a long time.