You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.