I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. You never see yourself as others do but I've always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.

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.

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

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

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody.