If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I'm gonna still play some dates, but I'm not gonna do anything near like I did it before.

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

Satan's gotta get along without me. Since I've broke the chain of sin I know for sure that he can't win.