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" I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did. "

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" Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason. "

" I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not. "

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" I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash. "

" Life is too short not to enjoy it. "

Life Is Too Short

" Some things I don't want to remember. "

" I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar. "

" I don't hold grudges. "