I don't feel like I've nearly got to the place where I'm ready to even slow down.

I feel like have a lot of music left to cut in my life.

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.

I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

I just remember standing there, singing with the headphones on and the strings playing, just how wonderful that felt. But we so rarely got to go out and do it. Obviously, we don't carry a 70-80-piece orchestra with us when we do shows.

Even with the sun beaming down on me I'm not sweating in my mind. I'm not sweating in my heart or in my career.