The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.
Robert James WallerThere are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.
Robert James WallerThe overriding problem with our country, and our world in general, is that we are, in large part, managed by incompetents. Most of these are men who have spent their lives seeking power rather than themselves.
Robert James WallerSometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.
Robert James Waller