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

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.

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

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.

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've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best.

You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do.