"We grew up with two things pounded into our brains from the day we were born," says songwriter Butch Hancock in a West Texas drawl capable of transforming a normal conversation into smoky music. "One is, God loves ya and he's gonna send ya to hell. The other is that sex is dirty and evil and nasty and filthy and sinful and bad and awful and you should save it for the one you love. So it's no wonder we were all schizoid maniacs."
-- Richard Gehr, "Lubbock on Everything" (Richard Gehr's Rubrics & Tendrils).
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Oh, I've always loved that quote! The Texas definitely shows up in that one. Wonder if he was Baptist.
Posted by: Michelle | July 21, 2005 at 09:10 AM