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

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.

If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for.

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 were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing.

By the time I did that third solo album, I'd finally learned how to do it, but I'd also learned that I liked being in a band

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 never did heroin, because I thought that meant I was doing heavy drugs, which shows you the insanity of doing drugs. I probably should have done heroin, because I understand heroin actually makes you feel good. Cocaine just makes you stupid.