I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

A woman went so far as to hire private detectives to contact me to help bring her out of what she called a hypnotic trance.

I was sometimes jeered by black soldiers who wanted me to sing something besides country music.

It was unlikely that anyone had ever heard a black person sing country music.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.