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.

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

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

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

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that's it. Some of them don't have that. They get a couple of releases. If you don't sell two million copies, you're gone, you're out of here.

There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I've done and I just can't stand to see what they're doing to it. But I've learned to live with it because that's what they've done. They've come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It's not country anymore.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.