I Used To Sing Songs And Write

I Think I've Got My Business Notions And My Sense For That Sort Of Thing From My Dad. My Dad Never Had A Chance To Go To School. He Couldn't Read And Write. But He Was So Smart. He Was Just One Of Those People That Could Just Make The Most Of Anything And Everything That He Had To Work With.

You Can't Really Make People Be Any Different Than What They Are.

Some Guys Look Better As They Get Older.

So Many Of My Relatives Didn't Get A Chance To Go To School, And My Own Daddy Couldn't Read Or Write.

In The Early Days, Porter Wagoner Would Not Exactly Scold Me, But He's Say, 'you're Writing Too Many Damn Verses. You're Makin' These Songs Too Damn Long.' And I'd Say, 'yeah, But I'm Tellin' A Story. I Have A Story To Tell.' And He'd Say, 'well, You're Not Going To Get It On The Radio.' If I Start Writing A Song, I'm Writing It For A Reason. People Would Say That I Had To Have Two Verses, And A Chorus, And A Bridge. I Tried To Learn That Formula.