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"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."
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"As I fingered my way through the songs, I felt my worries slough away. My music has always been the best remedy for my dark moods. As I sang, even my bruises seemed to pain me less."
"Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that."
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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."
"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."
"Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band."
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