Most country songs, certainly all the stuff I've written, are stories driven by characters.

When people say to me less is more I reply, 'More is more'.

I have been asked to pose for Penthouse on my hundredth birthday. Everybody is going to be sorry.

When you come from where I come from, if anyone in the family makes it out, the others kind of come with you.

I always ask God to work through me and let me be a light of some kind and help in this world, so I always pray for that, and I always want to do good.

I'm old enough and cranky enough now that if someone tried to tell me what to do, I'd tell them where to put it.

I got kind of scared when I thought they wanted me to do something... I didn't want to be naked on the front of a magazine unless everybody would know it was a joke. I wouldn't want to be naked even then.