I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

Do I think I was put here on earth to be a journalist and to seek truth? No, I don't.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

I want to go behind the scenes as well as on screen. I think you have to make your own destiny in this world.

Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.