Leon Russell

“California always struck me as a police state.”

“I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.”

“The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.”

“I used to play on Phil Spector's records, and he liked to use three pianists.”