Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just won't. Sometimes you get hung up on them. When that happens, you just throw it back, and maybe come back to it two or three weeks later.

Me and my partner, Conway Twitty, cleaned up at the 1972 Country Music Association Awards.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I don't go to church regular. But I pray for answers to my problems.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

I avoid going through places where there's too much poverty.

I've been around a long time, and life still has a whole lot of surprises for me.