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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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"So let's be honest with ourselves and not take ourselves too serious, and never condemn the other fellow for doing what we are doing every day, only in a different way."
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"I read about eight newspapers in a day. When I'm in a town with only one newspaper, I read it eight times."
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"The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under a lot of good officers, believe me. But there were a few bad ones, too."
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"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."
"I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out."
"Once you start thinking about it in a mercenary frame of mind, then you're finished. You're a joke, because there are too many mercenaries out there already."
"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."
"We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals."
"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."
"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."
"As a solo artist, I just felt cemented in front of the mike stand. There was very little time to play with the audience and be a band member."
"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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