Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways, but with all the fans I've got out there, I can't be all that wrong. I do love traditional country music. I love the good stuff.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.