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

But you know, the system almost destroyed itself while it was goin' on trying to destroy us.

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.

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.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.