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"  Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. His first home had no running water.  I got no axes to grind and nothing to hide. Anything you want to talk to me about, please do. You will not offend me, I promise you.  I am very pro-life. I am very pro-family. I am very pro-God. I very much believe in what I write and what I say.  I don&amp;#039;t like the terminology Left/Right, Republican/Democrat, because you&amp;#039;re swinging an awful wide loop there, and you&amp;#039;re liable to catch some people in it you don&amp;#039;t want to.  Time is too important, too precious to spend in dissension. I despise arguing. I can get along with anybody in the world if they give me a chance to. If I can&amp;#039;t get along with them, I just won&amp;#039;t go around them. I try to live in peace with people. I was probably on my way to learning anyway, but I&amp;#039;m sure having the prostate cancer fortified my view to some extent.  I&amp;#039;m having a colonoscopy every two years. I call him the cable guy.  I don&amp;#039;t think Elvis was Richard Burton, but I think his acting capabilities were way past what they ever gave him to do. I think he could&amp;#039;ve done more.  I worked at a creosote plant. I had a bunch of black workmates, and they kept talking about Randy&amp;#039;s Record Shop, and I had no idea what they were talking about. I come to find out what it was was WLAC in Nashville -- late at night, they would go to what they called &amp;quot;blues radio.&amp;quot; I was living in North Carolina, but the station came in at night like a local station, and these black guys used to listen to it all the time. It was a whole &amp;#039;nother world out there that we had never been exposed to.  My dad knew more about a pine tree than anybody I&amp;#039;ve ever met.   You owe them a show regardless of how many of them it is, or if you&amp;#039;ve had a fight with your wife, or you have a hangover. When you start forgetting that, those people don&amp;#039;t show up the next time you come to town.  I try, I really try, to entertain people.  I love playing golf -- I don&amp;#039;t want to spend my life doing it. I love riding horses -- I don&amp;#039;t want to spend my life doing it. I love fishing, but if I fished all the time, I&amp;#039;d get tired of it.  Forty-four years. Marry somebody you love. That&amp;#039;s the whole thing. And continue to love them. Keep your attention at home.  I don&amp;#039;t like renting stuff. I like to own stuff. I like ownership. We own both buses and the truck.  Every time I get a dog, something happens to it. We live out in the country, and you raise dogs in the country, they don&amp;#039;t know anything about cars, and they&amp;#039;ll run up under one. I had one dog that got snakebit, and I&amp;#039;ve had a couple three run over. So I just decided, till I could stay home more, there&amp;#039;s no sense having a dog.  &amp;quot;That lonesome whip-poor-will, he sounds too blue to fly, the midnight train is whining low, I&amp;#039;m so lonesome I could cry.&amp;quot; Shakespeare never said it any better. But you can like Hank Williams and you can still like Shakespeare.  The only places you can get a decent piece of barbecued brisket is Texas, Oklahoma, or Kansas.   You ever eat barbecued bologna? In Oklahoma, I guess they put it on a spit. They gash it and they brush it with sauce and cook it -- it&amp;#039;s really good. They put a roll of it on. It&amp;#039;s very good. Oh, you must try it sometime.  If I haven&amp;#039;t learned it by now, I&amp;#039;m never going to learn it. Interviewed by Scott Raab, September 12, 2008 RELATED STORIES:  WHAT I&amp;#039;VE LEARNED: More Wisdom and Damn Good Advice from Hundreds of Headliners!   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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