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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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" I'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes. "

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" I don't hold grudges. "

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Life Is Too Short

" Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song. "

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" I go to a great church. "

" I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band. "

" I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song. "