I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.