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I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
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By not having to live up to people's expectations, I was somehow free.
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I did co-write 'Moment of Forever' with Danny Timms. He wrote the melody, and I just did the words.
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I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan.
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I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.
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And the beer I had for breakfast wasn't badSo I had one more for dessertThen I fumbled through my closet for my clothesAnd found my cleanest dirty shirt..
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There was a film that really affected me, 'La Strada' by Fellini, where Anthony Quinn and Giulietta Masina travel around on his little motorcycle thing.
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I've had a life of all kinds of experiences - most of them good. And I've got eight kids and a wife that puts up with everything I do and keeps me out of trouble.
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
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I remember having a lot of Josh White albums. Johnny Cash. Elvis. I loved the Coasters.
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I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.
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'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.
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I ended up being friends with all my heroes. Lefty Frizzell, George Jones, Johnny Cash - it was incredible.
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If you can't get out of something, get into it.
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I watched Dylan record 'Blonde On Blonde' in my first week at work at CBS. It was just incredible.
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If it hadn't been for Johnny Cash, I'd probably have been a Nashville songwriter because that's what I had done for almost five years.
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If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
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The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
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To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you're doing the right thing.
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Nothing ain't worth nothing but it's free.
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He said, we'll take us into town, lay our money downI'll bring you the sweetest thing that growsBecause the fairest ones in sight are bloomin every nightAt a tavern called the Sabre and the Rose..
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I've tried to be more self-sufficient as I've gotten older. I'd like to not worry about whether they're going to sell my next album or book. Hell, William Blake wasn't even published in his lifetime.
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I've been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
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They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.