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

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.

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

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.

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respond to what is heartfelt. They can always tell when a singer is faking it.