 He also made no apologies for his new, brasher sound; in a 1973 interview with Chet Flippo of "Rolling Stone", the singer stated, "That's one of the big problems of country music.They don't want the country folks to know very much and they don't give 'em credit for knowin' very much.Country fans are as smart as anybody and it's an insult to 'em when a program director says, well, that song's too deep for our audience.