"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self-improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
"James Burton was playing some pure roots stuff. Gram Parsons took an interest in that record [in '68-'69] and he admired it. I never had the concept that I'm going to go somewhere and I'm going to have this career. I just really never thought about all that."
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Source: Interview with Gordon Ames, www.outlawmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.
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