Guitar Playing Is Very Important To Me.

To Be Part Of What You're Singing About Is Somewhat Painful. You've Got To Climb Inside It All.

My Second Wife Bonnie Owens And I Worked Together After We Divorced For A Period Of Maybe 20 Years. And I Managed To Stay Friends With Another Wife. And Then There's One That I Don't Mess With. Everybody's Got One Of Those.

In My Life There Were A Lot Of Situations Where I Could Have Been Killed Or Some Officer Might Have Been Killed Chasing Me, A Lot Of Things Could Be Different. Now, You Know That's Experience You Can't Buy. And It's There In My Rearview Mirror And I Can Refer To It In My Writing. I Have The Experience To Talk About Things Some People Only Imagine.

Stop Rolling Down Hill Like A Snow Ball Headed For Hell.

It Sounds Like Something From A Woody Guthrie Song, But It's True; I Was Raised In A Freight Car.