I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

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

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

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

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

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

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