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"I'm still amazed people remembered and didn't give up on me."
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"I didn't need to borrow money from the record company, because if I had my own publishing company, and I had my own writers, I'd have enough to get and do whatever I wanted to do."


"We were grooving, at that point, in the same direction, but remember, Roy Hamilton and myself were going into a path and a direction that had no programming."


"My manager was Buddy Glee, who put me together with Mike Curb, and was basically the idea to bring some soul to the label and bring something different to the label besides the Hank Williams situation."


"You gotta do it with class and integrity. If not, you're gonna drag yourself through the mud."


"We had some problems - my children were kidnapped during that time, and it just changed my whole way of thinking, from being in show business and everything else."
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