Anybody who loves country music loves gospel. Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I'm competing with. We older artists are competing with the new style of country, with their new modern style of gospel, with the young people.

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

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.

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

I've always said that if I could have made a living someway in gospel music, I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.