Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing.

If you're playing on a soft-sounding instrument like a Rhodes, you're not going to write honky-tonk raucous rock and roll. The character of the instrument will be imbedded in whatever you write.

'I've got to learn how to do this. That's my instrument, and he can do it. Why can't I?

Everybody will get plenty of eggs.

Since there's only room for me to write a few songs on each band album, I really have to use my songs. But on my own album I had room to use songs I wanted.