I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.

I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live.

Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.

I came to believe in a power much higher than I

Backstage at the Grand Ole Opry, I got on my knees and told her that I was going to marry her some day. We were both married to someone else at the time. ‘Ring Of Fire’—June and Merle Kilgore wrote that song for me-that’s the way our love affair was. We fell madly in love and we worked together all the time, toured together all the time, and when the tour was over we both had to go home to other people. It hurt.