It doesn't really matter to me what the rest of country is doing. I'm not caught up in trying to make a record that sounds like everybody else. That, to me, is a record label's absolute biggest downfall.

You have to believe that things can be bigger than what you see in front of you in order to move forward.

Our agricultural colleges continue to graduate specialists who become vocational agricultural teachers in the schools, and county agents, who go forth to extol the virtues of poison insecticides, herbicides, and commercial fertilizers.

Music is also supposed to be fun. On this record, (titled 'III'), I really had the desire again to jump back into some good-time, fun-loving songs.

I was probably nine or ten the first time I heard there was no Santa Claus.

I married a woman who's not going to take anything. No slips. She's very accountable, and she holds me very accountable.

It's important that adults get along with each other for the child's sake, and that is our situation.