You're the reason our kids are ugly.

When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.

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.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Nobody's perfect. The only one that ever was, was crucified.

I get along with all the women singers, but especially Dolly Parton. We talk the same hillbilly language.

I wasn't for Vietnam. When I told that to the hippie newspaper, all my people got nervous.