Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

Classical Gas. You can play this song with a symphony, or you can play with a couple of guitars. That's what we're going to do.

Here I was, 68 years old, and it's the first time. Well, I said, 'I guess I've done that now.' I got a little special treatment. I got to stay in an area for non-violent prisoners and all that jazz. There was about four of us in the facility there.

In 1969, Pod Rogers came up with the idea of getting on the 'Glen Campbell Good Time Hour,' Russell said.

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.

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.