Goodbye Don't Mean Gone.

Music To Me Is Just Like Breathing. I Have To Have It. It's Part Of Me.

You Never Can Overwhelm An Instrument. You Will Never Get Out All That's In An Instrument. An Instrument Will Bring You To Your Limits.

I'm Not Into The Money Thing. You Can Only Sleep In One Bed At A Time. You Can Only Eat One Meal At A Time, Or Be In One Car At A Time. So I Don't Have To Have Millions Of Dollars To Be Happy. All I Need Are Clothes On My Back, A Decent Meal, And A Little Loving When I Feel Like It. That's The Bottom Line.

The Words To Country Songs Are Very Earthy Like The Blues. They're Not As Dressed Up And The People Are Very Honest And Say, 'look, I Miss You Darlin', So I Went Out And Got Drunk In This Bar.' That's The Way You Say It. Where In Tin Pan Alley They Would Say, 'oh I Missed You Darling, So I Went To This Restaurant And I Sat Down And Had A Dinner For One.' That's Cleaned Up Now, You See? But Country And Blues Tells It Like It Is.

I Was Born With Music Inside Me. Music Was One Of My Parts. Like My Ribs, My Kidneys, My Liver, My Heart. Like My Blood. It Was A Force Already Within Me When I Arrived On The Scene. It Was A Necessity For Me-like Food Or Water.