I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.

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

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.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.