I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

When I'm with my wife, I know she's a beautiful woman. I know that, and more than that, it's what she is inside. She's beautiful inside; she loves music like I do. That's the thing that brought us together and probably keeps us together.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.