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I'll go to the movies and hear 'Angel From Montgomery' in some film, and nobody ever even told me about it. They don't tell you your stuff is going to be in a movie. They don't have to, so they don't tell you. You get paid eventually.
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If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
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I was kind of shy as a lad, and a lot of things that made me laugh, I found, did not make other people laugh.
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Because of my song 'Sam Stone,' a lot of people thought I was interested in writing protest songs. Writing protest songs always struck me as patting yourself on the back.
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The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.
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Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
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I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.
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The more producers I talked to, the more I got looked at like I was crazy for wanting to make a live-sounding album.
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The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.
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The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and all that. That would be something, to get your name in there.
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I hate to admit it to my wife, but I only wear two outfits on the road, and then a third one during the day, but I carry about 20.
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I never fit in with straight country. I never really fit in with rock n' roll. I've always been somewhere in between all this stuff.
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My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
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I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
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I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind the life that was in Chicago.
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You get to thinking that because you've written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they're not coming along, you're just as in the dark as you ever were. When they're coming along, there's nothing to it. Sometimes it's so easy, it's like you're a court stenographer.
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When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
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I don't concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I'm going.
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I never gave up on 'Archie.' I started picking up 'Archie' comics when I was in my thirties, and then I started subscribing to them.
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The only reason I figured out I didn't like my old records to listen was I could hear how nervous I was and how uncomfortable I was. And who would want to sit around and listen to yourself being uncomfortable?
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All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king and queen over there.
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Howie Epstein was a kind, patient, and extremely talented musician. He took two years out of his life and dedicated his undivided attention to the making of two of my records. Those records changed my life thanks to Howie.
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