When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

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

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

We're kind of defined by our mistakes

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

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

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.