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" I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A. "

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" I've always been forgetful. "

" I got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys. "

" 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. "

" When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes. "

" All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline. "

" I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can. "

" God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do. "

" I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well. "

" I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better. "

" 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've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember. "

" I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's. "

" To play with a symphony today is just fabulous. "

" With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.' "

" If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material. "

" Elvis was a great singer. He really was. "

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

" TV is just an incredible media. "

" I spent some time in Hell. "

" We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke. "

" You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me. "

" If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible. "

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

" What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else. "

" Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage. "

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