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

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

I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching

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 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 don't like looking back.

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