If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds..

I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there..

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

I don't like looking back..

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing..

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire ….

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not..

We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals.

I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their ….

I remember my first moment onstage was at a 4-H contest at the Pratville Junior High School cafeteria auditorium around 1965. I had my first electric….

When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected..

When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that we….

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs..

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for..

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively..

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift..

I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of..

You can have fun, but you also have to put on your thinking cap every day.