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

I've seen every highway in the United States, and they all look alike to me.

I try to visit people in hospitals when I can, smiling and joking while I'm there. But when I leave, I just start crying.

I've seen things, and that's almost the same as doing them.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

I refuse to be pushed around anymore.