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

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness.

Country fans need to support country music by buying albums and concert tickets for traditional artists or the music will just fade away. And that would be really sad.

A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wrong with their nose, if it's a little crooked, it's got to be straightened up.

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.