Its Hard To Be A Diamond In

One Is Only Poor, Only If They Choose To Be.

In The Early Days, Porter Wagoner Would Not Exactly Scold Me, But He's Say, 'you're Writing Too Many Damn Verses. You're Makin' These Songs Too Damn Long.' And I'd Say, 'yeah, But I'm Tellin' A Story. I Have A Story To Tell.' And He'd Say, 'well, You're Not Going To Get It On The Radio.' If I Start Writing A Song, I'm Writing It For A Reason. People Would Say That I Had To Have Two Verses, And A Chorus, And A Bridge. I Tried To Learn That Formula.

People Say You Shouldn't Have Plastic Surgery Because If God Wanted You Another Way He Would Have Made You That Way, But I Say That's A Lot Of Crock. If God Didn't Want Plastic Surgeons, He Wouldn't Have Given Them Hands To Work With.

I Always Loved That Old Song Banks Of The Ohio - It Was Always Such A Man's Song, So I've Always Wanted To Record It.

I Am Not Gay, But If I Were, I Would Be The First One Running Out Of The Closet.