To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.
Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?
If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets. Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
I love Johnny Cash, and I respect Johnny Cash. He’s the biggest. He’s like an Elvis in this business, but no, he’s never been the rebel.
He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
I didn’t aim at anything except good music.
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.
Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that. That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound, what I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.