"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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"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"
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"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."
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"When I was a kid, I liked the newer music that was coming out. I have never really felt confined by any style of music. I would play in bands that were soul bands or that played standards - any kind of music that I enjoyed playing."
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"There were some older guitarists on my side of town, and I got to know many of them"
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"I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road."
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"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."
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"I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching"
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"We're kind of defined by our mistakes"
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"If music became extinct now, I dont know what Id be good for."
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"When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing."
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"I feel like I have the greatest life an artist could dream of."
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