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"I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not."
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"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."
"On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"When a song gets its legs and begins to come to me, this is the euphoric hook that keeps me wanting to continue."
"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."
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