He told an interviewer that 95 percent of the men in bars would hear his music on the juke box and say to their girlfriends, "I can sing better than him," and Tubb added they would be right.
インタビューにおいて彼はバーにいる男性の95%はジュークボックスで彼の曲を聴きたがり、そのガールフレンドに「自分は彼より歌がうまい」と言い、そして実際そうだと語った。