You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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.

If I see something sagging, dragging and bagging, I’ll get it nip, tucked, sucked or plucked.

We're phonies if we're not exactly who we are.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next. Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

The hardest exercise for most of us fat people is that one where we push our chairback from the dinner table.