People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

God's the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That's solely in the hands of God.

My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon.

There's a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there's a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.

The hardest thing for me in Vietnam wasn't seeing the wounded and dead. It was watching the big transport jets come in, bringing loads of fresh new boys for the war.

No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith.

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.