He called me 'Mr. Haggard' and I was a little twenty-four, twenty-five year old punk from Oildale...He gave me complete responsibility. I think if he'd jumped in and said, 'Oh, you can't do that,' it would've destroyed me."
He called me 'Mr. Haggard' and I was a young, inexperienced person from Oildale... He gave me complete authority. If he had intervened and said, "You can't do that," it would have been devastating to my confidence.