Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

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

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

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.

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.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.