My Daddy Left Home When I Was

When I Get An Idea For A Song It Would Gel In My Mind For Weeks Or Months, And Then One Day Just Like That, Ill Write It.

I Did [picking Cotton] From - Until I Was 18 Years Old, That Is. Then I Picked The Guitar, And I've Been Picking It Since.

Gospel Music Was The Thing That Inspired Me As A Child Growing Up On A Cotton Farm, Where Work Was Drudgery And It Was So Hard That When I Was In The Field I Sang All The Time. Usually Gospel Songs Because They Lifted Me Up Above That Black Dirt.

My Mother Always Told Me That Any Talent Is A Gift Of God And I Always Believed It. If I Quit, I Would Just Live In Front Of The Television And Get Fat And Die Pretty Soon.

I Could Wrap Myself In The Warm Cocoon Of A Song And Go Anywhere.