Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too.

I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.

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'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can.

My weakness for beautiful women is my most expensive vice, I still believe in matrimony, but I can't afford another try.