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

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

It didn't make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he'd say, "Get up and sing me some songs." We didn't want to sing but we sang.

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

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

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.

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat.