Well, I just can't play the game anymore. I'm 63 years old, and I've been in the business for 40 years now. I take good advice and direction really well, but I don't need somebody that finished college two years ago to come in and tell me what I should be recording.

I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ... if I can't take him with me, I don't want to go.

I have people talking about, "Boy, I hate to go to work." I love to go to work!

As in the case of California, the wolf is at the door of America and the present administration acts as if it's a pussycat. America cannot maintain the present entitlement programs and support a government this size and keep on living on a credit card.

I don't want to be without God's blessings.

My wife is my best friend, by far my best friend.

I do more writing by myself than with anybody else. My best thing is sitting...around somewhere with a guitar, and having an idea. You never know where it'd come from. Songwriting is a God-given talent.