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

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.

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

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.

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

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

I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I'm gaining weight, I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.