"If you aren't gonna say exactly how and what you feel, you might as well not say anything at all."
"By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd."
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Source: Johnny Cash (2004). “Johnny Cash, the Songs”
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