“In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.”
![“When you're younger and a little more innocent, you write whatever [lyrics] comes naturally. But as you get used to writing you try to steer the sound and music to different music and throwing in the "kitchen sink" of sorts into the music. With that way, you end up putting in much more than before…” quote by Steve "Lips" Kudlow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a89/steve-lips-kudlow-53471_different_when-you-re-younger-and-a-little-more-in_1680012.jpg)
![“I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.” quote by Dolly Parton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/116/dolly-parton-366_acting_i-think-music-and-acting-they-are-connec_35206.jpg)
