Huey Lewis Quotations

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

Well, we were originally called Huey Lewis and the American Express. But on the eve of the release of our first record, our record label, Chrysalis Records was afraid that we'd be sued by American Express.

I don't have a formal home recording studio, but I can record tracks on my computer upstairs in my office.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

After 'Sports' came out in the fall of 1983, everything changed for me. Four of the album's singles became top-10 hits, and by the end of June in 1984, the album was No. 1 on the Billboard chart. It was quite a ride, and for the first time I had enough money to live the way I wanted.

A lot has been written and said about why he was so great, but I think the best way to appreciate his greatness is just to go back and play some of the old records... Time has a way of being very unkind to old records, but Elvis' keep getting better and better.

I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

I got a very good life. I sold plenty of records, I get recognized plenty, I can always have somebody call up and get me a fine table at a restaurant. What do you really need, ultimately?

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

I am deluded enough to think I can bring something to the table.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

Film is a lark to me - thank God I don't have to make a living from it.

Our first record, 'Huey Lewis And The News', was seen by no one - it sold 25 copies.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

I may be the most recognizable name in the cast, but I can guarantee that I am not the most talented.

I was knocked out by the show, Chicago.

The choices I make - they have to be creative.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I grew up in Marin County north of San Francisco, and in the 1950s and '60s it was a natural paradise.

The choices for me now are completely creative. I know, when I'm going to make a record, it ain't going to sell.

We had several hits in the States but probably only one big one in Europe. The crowds are smaller.

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.

This is where people get it wrong. Some see us as a pop band, but we never have been just a pop band. Some see us as an '80s band. But if we started today, we'd be a jam band.

It's hard to sometimes remember we're here to have a good time. Jack Lemmon was the best at that. I played with Lem and he'd have an 8 but he'd still smile and laugh with the fans. He had fun even though he never made the cut. He knew that's what he was here for.

Talk about old school. He was a music lover. Imagine that. He actually loved the music. They don't make 'em like that anymore.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin' for a Livin'. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

She was running from a fat man selling salvation in his hand.

Step by step, one by one, higher and higher. Step by step, rung by rung, climbing Jacob's ladder.

Take it from me, its hip to be square.

New York was the inspiration for The Heart of Rock and Roll and Workin for a Livin. There are a lot of songs in the streets of New York.

My first kiss can be summed up in one word - unsuccessful.

Now the old boy may be barely breathing, but the heart of rock and roll is still beating.

I'm happy to be stuck with you.

Grace Kelly writes great songs, sings beautifully, is a world class saxophonist, and is going to be a big big star

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

You've been thinking and I've been drinking.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Sometimes bad is bad.

I love you Huey was the note I read, but there's a strange pair of shoes underneath the bed.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

I'm a tired runner in the human race.

I want a new drug, one that won't make me sick. One that won't make me crash my car, or make my head three feet thick.

The idea was to write the songs as they came to us, rehearse them, play them on the road, then, when there were 12, take them into the studio.