I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point?
To instruct the mass of our citizens in these, their rights, interests and duties, as men and citizens. . . this brings us to the point at which are to commence the higher branches of education. . . . To develop the reasoning faculties of our youth, enlarge their minds, cultivate their morals, and instill into them the precepts of virtue and order.