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" I know it was raw in some places, and I was a jerk in some places, but that's the way I was, and I was stupid. "

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" There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart. "

" I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me. "

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" I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind. "

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