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

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

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

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

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

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, a Silvertone with the amp built into the case, and I won first prize.

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