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.

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.

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

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

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

You can't put this possum in a cage