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

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 soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

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

When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue.

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