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

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.

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice.

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.

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

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

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.