"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."

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"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."

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"When I need the idea, I can find it immediately. I have a horror of rewriting or deleting; the parts of my composition are carried in my head 'till I can write them down, even to the last note. Then I do not alter a jot."

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"I soon gave up instruction for self-teaching."

Self

"Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively."

Balance

"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."

Music

"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."

Mind

"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."

Music

"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."

Time

"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."

Time

"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."

Sound

"When you sign with a label, they do insist upon certain rights, and if you have a competent attorney, your rights will be protected."

Rights

"I'd better be on the road, or I'll be going nuts. I'm not the kind of guy who sits around with a pipe and slippers watching soap operas."

Road