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A Lot Of My Own Relatives Didn't Get To Go To School Because We Were Mountain People. You Have To Get Out And Work And Help Feed The Family. My Own Dad Couldn't Read And Write. And My Dad Was Very Proud Of Me.

Stop This Attitude That Older People Ain't Any Good Anymore! We're As Good As We Ever Were - If We Ever Were Any Good.

When People Say To Me Less Is More I Reply, 'more Is More'.

Most Country Songs, Certainly All The Stuff I've Written, Are Stories Driven By Characters.

I Do Remember How It Was To Be Poor. I Do Remember That In My Early Years, We Had To Grow And Raise All Of Our Food, Even Our Animals. And I Remember In My Early Life, We Didn't Even Have Electricity. So It Was Very, Very Hard Times Then.