I told him you do it by what you write. We're in competition with ourselves. We've got a legacy and we can answer that legacy, ... If it doesn't fly musically, we're not going to do it.

The fact that it's gossip is exactly why I wanted to keep these private.

He clearly wants his daughter to come to the U.S. to college. ... I told him we had a scholarship for her at the University of Georgia.

There was a musical vision that wasn't locked into one place. It's a musician's band. We weren't necessarily trying to be a household name so much than make a name within the musical community and shape those things that influenced us.

Now that this incident has occurred, however, the security officials obviously will be recommending measures to take in light of a known situation.

Little Feat had done risky moves from the get go. You're going to lose people and get people. If they don't get it, it's probably not the first thing they didn't get. Most were middle-aged guys who were still wondering where Lowell was. We try to honor Lowell every time we go on stage. If they like it that's fine. If the audience doesn't show up we'll call it a day.

We believe we were playing by the rules and regulations and guidelines as we understood them at the time.

People have to have some freedom of movement.

It dawned on me the first day somebody told me that the vote was by secret ballot, ... that people vote for their friends. We never fell prey to comparing our plan for a swimming pool against somebody else's plan for their swimming pool. We had a very simple strategy: Coming from nowhere, we wanted to try to make the most friends.