I think Charley Pride has been one of the best things to happen to country music, to prove it belongs to everybody.

Sometimes it's like you're a big pie settin' on the table, and everybody runs up and gets their piece of you. When it's over' the plate's empty.

I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rings.

You don't see no city when you look at me cause country's all I am. I love runnin' barefoot through the old cornfields and I love that country ham. Well you say I'm made just to fit your plans but there's a barnyard shovel pick your hands. If your eyes are on me you're lookin' at country.

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Doolittle looked just like a little toy soldier the first time I ever saw him.

I love people and I love to sing, and that's what keeps me going.