[my Mother] Made The Money To Send

When I Think About Country Music, I Think About America.

When I Was A Baby, My Mama Told Me Son, Always Be A Good Boy, Don't Ever Play With Guns. But I Shot A Man In Reno.

What I Said, What Are You [rick Rubin] Going To Do With Me That Nobody Else Has Been Able To Do To Sell Records With Me?

I've Never Been Accused Of A Felony. I Never Spent Time Behind Bars Except For A Few Overnight Jail Times Back In The Sixties. [but] I Think There's A Little Bit Of A Criminal In All Of Us. Everybody's Done Something They Don't Want Anybody To Know About.

By The Time I Actually Recorded Bitter Tears I Carried A Heavy Load Of Sadness And Outrage; I Felt Every Word Of Those Songs... I Expected There To Be Trouble With That Album, And There Was.... When It Was Released, Many Radio Stations Wouldn't Play It.... The Very Idea Of Unconventional Or Even Original Ideas Ending Up On "country" Radio In The Late 1990s Is Absurd.