 I guess my mama did it because I was always writing these songs, stuff I'd never lived, and love songs, people getting killed in the war. I would hear everybody talking, and I'd write all these songs. And mama was fascinated with the fact that I could do that. So anybody that would come to our house, mama would say, let me get your guitar. Somebody in one of the articles I read who had worked with you called you a musical savant.