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All the time I had my success, I didn't know what I was doing. I struggled and struggled and hacked things out without any insight as to why.Collection: Leon
I'm just concerned with going about my business and making the records I want to make.Collection: Leon
I'm kind of the Forrest Gump of rock n' roll.Collection: Leon
I am not aware of my public image or what people think of me. I don't evaluate myself that way.Collection: Leon
I often haven't heard the music since I've recorded it. I don't listen to it. When I do hear it, like at someone's house, I'll listen. I'm probably the most pleased with the stuff I did with New Grass Revival.Collection: Leon
I'll work as long as I can. I'm happy with my life.Collection: Leon
I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.Collection: Leon
All my writing takes place during the recording of the master tapes. I never do have songs when I start up an album. I actually write them while I record.Collection: Leon
I started writing rather late in the game. I was fascinated about the story about how Bob Dylan, for 'Nashville Skyline,' wrote between takes. So I'd try to sing new songs off the top of my head. I had rather less than spectacular success on that. But a lot of my songs were done that way.Collection: Leon
Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.Collection: Leon
I have a certain amount of difficulty dealing with too much limelight.Collection: Leon
I'm always having people come up to me and say I saved their life - but I don't remember it!Collection: Leon
Watching yourself on film, if you've never watched yourself on film before, you want to go crawl into bed and stay there for a week.Collection: Leon
It's kind of depressing to make a lot of records and not get the kind of response they deserve.Collection: Leon
The doctor who pulled me out at birth damaged my second and third vertebrae. But without those tugs, I probably would have been a regular guy selling insurance in Texas or something.Collection: Leon
The Pentecostals had horns, drums, guitars, huge choirs, and screaming and dancing and all kinds of stuff. That was for me.Collection: Leon
I used to write on pads with a pen but had trouble reading the words the next day. Years later, Bob Dylan taught me to just write and write on a laptop computer. Then I'd print that out. When it was time to write a song, I'd go through the pages and sing melodies to words that moved me.Collection: Leon
Actually, I didn't listen to country music very much in Oklahoma. I listened to blues and rock n' roll.Collection: Leon
My first job in a country band was after I moved to California.Collection: Leon
Oklahoma was a dry state, and consequently, there was no liquor laws. And I was able to take advantage of that by playing in nightclubs at the age of 14. It was real handy.Collection: Leon