When You Sing, You Pray Twice.

When I Was 17 - 16, My Father And I Cut Wood All Day Long And I Was Swinging That Crosscut Saw And Hauling Wood.

Sam Phillips Asked Me To Go Write A Love Song, Or Maybe A Bitter Weeper. So I Wrote A Song Called, "cry Cry Cry," Went Back In And Recorded That For The Other Side Of The Record.

I Got Really Excited About It. But Then We Went Into The Studio And Tried To Record Some With Different Musicians, And It Didn't Sound Good. It Didn't Work. So We Put Together The Album [unchained] With Just A Guitar And Myself.

My Mother Always Told Me That Any Talent Is A Gift Of God And I Always Believed It. If I Quit, I Would Just Live In Front Of The Television And Get Fat And Die Pretty Soon.

By The Time I Actually Recorded Bitter Tears I Carried A Heavy Load Of Sadness And Outrage; I Felt Every Word Of Those Songs... I Expected There To Be Trouble With That Album, And There Was.... When It Was Released, Many Radio Stations Wouldn't Play It.... The Very Idea Of Unconventional Or Even Original Ideas Ending Up On "country" Radio In The Late 1990s Is Absurd.