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

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

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.

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