I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

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.

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 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.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.