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.

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

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.

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

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

There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them