Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average person can follow. Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best.

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour. It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.

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

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.