I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim. And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love's fire, cause it's cold on the dark side of fame.

What bothers me most is that I don't bother you.

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I've always felt that blues, rock 'n' roll and country are just about a beat apart.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.