Johnny Paycheck

Most people are dissatisfied with their bag, they work hard to get a damn raise. Inflation eats it up. They're locked into the whole system.

I sing about things that have always been and always will be.

Any musician will tell you they have played for free just because they wanted an audience and a chance to play.

Women have asked for equal rights, and I think having equal rights means sharing all the responsibilities of our country. Now, I'm not saying all women would make good soldiers on the frontline, but I know some who would make better soldiers than some men.

I guess I'm pretty hard headed and stubborn.

I've never held a real job in my life. I've always just looked for a place to stay. And if I didn't find it, I'd sleep in the streets.

Yeah, I like acting. I'd like to do more of it. I want to do it all.

I was a pretty wild kid, I guess.

I've got one speed. Wide open.

It doesn't matter to me where I play, as long as I pack it.

When you live a good, clean life things really pay off for you.

I sing about the little guy that has been kicked around.

I think some of my greatest creative stuff was in the 1960s, but I think the most commercial stuff, things that made a lot of sense for the time, was the CBS stuff.

I'm a Gemini, an adventurer.

Hank Williams was my idol. He was the first real, wonderful outlaw individual in the business.

When people don't understand something, they condemn it. That's what's happened to me. They've condemned me without taking time to understand me.

My music's always been about life. And situations. Situation comedies, situation life.

I learned a lot about the educational system, and what not having it does to you.

I know what it's like to be a loser.

Yeah, Paycheck's an outlaw. The pilgrims were outlaws, too, y'know. They wanted to do it their way. An outlaw is someone who believes in himself and doesn't give a damn what others think.