I Can't Really Say Why

My Second Wife Bonnie Owens And I Worked Together After We Divorced For A Period Of Maybe 20 Years. And I Managed To Stay Friends With Another Wife. And Then There's One That I Don't Mess With. Everybody's Got One Of Those.

We're Turning Into The Society That Is Accepting The Force-feed. I Don't Quite Understand Why We're Going For The Things We're Going For. There's No Process Of Elimination Anymore In Music. They Have These Grooming Schools, These Things, And They're Turning Out These Clones, And The Music Is Sounding So Refined That It's Not Even Interesting.

When You Get To Readin' About Where The Music And John Steinbeck And All Those People Like That Come From, The Further You Go The More Interesting It Becomes.

There's Two Or Three Kids Out There Trying To Make Good Music, And The Rest Of Them Sound Like It's Been Strained Through Some Kind Of White Toast Or Something. It All Sounds Just Too Neat And Perfect, With No Surprise To It At All. No Story, No Nothing. It's Like Building Cars, Like An Assembly Line. It Doesn't Sound Like Anything That Came From A Guitar.

In 1960, When I Came Out Of Prison As An Ex-convict, I Had More Freedom Under Parolee Supervision Than There's Available... In America Right Now.