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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.