Sighted People, You Gotta Deal With Them.

The Words To Country Songs Are Very Earthy Like The Blues. They're Not As Dressed Up And The People Are Very Honest And Say, 'look, I Miss You Darlin', So I Went Out And Got Drunk In This Bar.' That's The Way You Say It. Where In Tin Pan Alley They Would Say, 'oh I Missed You Darling, So I Went To This Restaurant And I Sat Down And Had A Dinner For One.' That's Cleaned Up Now, You See? But Country And Blues Tells It Like It Is.

Music Is About The Only Thing Left That People Don't Fight Over.

I Can't Help What I Sound Like. What I Sound Like Is What I Am. You Know? I Cannot Be Anything Other That What I Am.

When I Started To Sing Like Myself - As Opposed To Imitating Nat Cole, Which I Had Done For A While - When I Started Singing Like Ray Charles, It Had This Spiritual And Churchy, This Religious Or Gospel Sound. It Had This Holiness And Preachy Tone To It. It Was Very Controversial. I Got A Lot Of Criticism For It.

Before I Begin, Let Me Say Right Here And Now That I'm A Country Boy. And, Man, I Mean The Real Backwoods! That's At The Start Of The Start Of The Thing, And That's At The Heart Of The Thing.