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.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

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.

There's always one more way to do something-- your way.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.