You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble.

Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind.

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

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

You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em.

I need someone like me.