"When I was arrested I was dressed in black"
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"It's all fleeting. As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture."
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"There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around."
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"My way of communicating with God as a boy (and often even now) was through the lyrics of a song. . . . So I didn't have the problem some people do who say, "I don't know how to pray." I used the songs to communicate with God. . . . To me, songs were the telephone to heaven, and I tied up the line quite a bit."
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"Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere."
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"Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand."
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"I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs."
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"Understand your man, meditate on it."
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"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."
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"I wear black because I'm comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it's hot I'm comfortable in light blue."
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"I love Bob Dylan, I really do. I love his early work, I love the first time he plugged in electrically, I love his Christian albums, I love his other albums."
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"I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day."
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"God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit."
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"You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else."
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"The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war."
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"I developed a pretty unusual style, I think."
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"I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated."
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"I wear the black for those who never read."
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"[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived."
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"When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs."
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