It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords.

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

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

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift..

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

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

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 ….

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 soon gave up instruction for self-teaching.

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..

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

I don't like looking back..

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….

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

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

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 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….