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Rule Number One: Always Stick Around For One More Drink. That's When Things Happen. That's When You Find Out Everything You Want To Know.

Keep A Diary, But Don't Just List All The Things You Did During The Day. Pick One Incident And Write It Up As A Brief Vignette. Give It Color, Include Quotes And Dialogue, Shape It Like A Story With A Beginning, Middle And End—as If It Were A Short Story Or An Episode In A Novel. It's Great Practice. Do This While Figuring Out What You Want To Write A Book About. The Book May Even Emerge From Within This Running Diary.

Two Tears In A Bucket. Motherfuck It.

If You Go To Atlanta, The First Question People Ask You Is, "what's Your Business?" In Macon They Ask, "where Do You Go To Church?" In Augusta They Ask Your Grandmother's Maiden Name. But In Savannah The First Question People Ask You Is "what Would You Like To Drink?"

Someone Once Wrote That Musicians Are Touched On The Shoulder By God, And I Think It's True. You Can Make Other People Happy With Music, But You Can Make Yourself Happy Too. Because Of My Music, I Have Never Known Loneliness And Never Been Depressed.