If you want to succeed in life...you must pick 3 bones to carry with you at all times: a wish bone, a backbone, and a funny bone.

I've got CDs in my car, listening all the time for that next song, because everybody's looking.

I was one of the very first people to ever do a video in country music.

I always like story songs, Dolly Parton, Tom T. Hall, Mel Tillis, Red Stegall, when they'd do their story songs. I was totally enthralled.

Mama is funny. She has a great sense of humor and loves a good joke. Loves a practical joke, too.

I grew up in southeastern Oklahoma on a working cattle ranch, and it was always very romantic to me: The West, the cowboy, the Western way of life.

Finding a good bus driver can be as important as finding a good musician.