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

We're kind of defined by our mistakes

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.

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

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

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