I don’t concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I’m going. John Prine Read Quote
You get to thinking that because you’ve written 50 or 100 songs, you think maybe you know how to do it. But when they’re not coming along, you’re just as in the dark as you ever were. When they’re coming along, there’s nothing to it. Sometimes it’s so easy, it’s like you’re a court stenographer. John Prine Read Quote
It doesn’t hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see ‘cancer’ in big letters, and you’re the patient. Then it all kind of comes home. John Prine Read Quote
I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it’s real before I put it down on paper. John Prine Read Quote
Yeah, early ’71 is when I got my record contract. I had a record come out by August of ’71. Things happened really fast. John Prine Read Quote