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I basically left Texas with no money. I was making $3.50 working in some mall, so I didn't have a lot of cash. I took $1,000 and headed to California. Along the way I stopped in Vegas because I had always wanted to see Caesar's Palace. So I stopped there and won $2,500 on a slot machine! It was amazing. ”
I think men are a beautiful creation. ”
I gave everything I ever wrote to Johnny Cash. I think he said later in some interview that he would take them home and throw them in the lake with all the other demos. I'm sure he got a million of them. ”
When I was stationed in Germany, Johnny Cash was already a legend over there because he'd done some shows, then gone off to some bar straight afterwards and played just for the troops. So he was a real hero. ”
I grew up listening to Hank Williams and Johnny Cash, so arriving in Nashville in the '60s was really exciting for me. ”
I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters. ”
If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years. ”
Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get. ”
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose. ”
I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible. ”