She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

When you're hot your hot, when you're not your not.

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

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.

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I'd put on the wildest show.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!