God gives us life and takes us away as He sees fit.

Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does.

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.

How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man.

People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones.