I'm not here for a long time. I'm here for a short time

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it.

I was a young troubadour when I rode in on a song. And, I'll be an old troubadour when I'm gone.

I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.

I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

I always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out.

I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material.