Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?

The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn't happen until I did. It wasn't a real country sound, what I did. I've listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.