It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

There are only four or five real events that we have that draw that many people into town each year. We should have at least 12; and once we have 12, we can have 24.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.