I'm a show-off basically... always have been.

I hope life treats you kind, and I hope you have all that you ever dreamed of, and I wish you joy and happiness. But above all of this, I wish you love.

I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

I do have a lot of gays in my family now, but some will never come out.

If people work for me over the years, I expect them to be paid what they're owed, but I don't expect them to be paid more than they earn.

In the early days, Porter Wagoner would not exactly scold me, but he's say, 'You're writing too many damn verses. You're makin' these songs too damn long.' And I'd say, 'Yeah, but I'm tellin' a story. I have a story to tell.' And he'd say, 'Well, you're not going to get it on the radio.' If I start writing a song, I'm writing it for a reason. People would say that I had to have two verses, and a chorus, and a bridge. I tried to learn that formula.