I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

San Antonio is like a military town. It's like literally - when I was growing up there, there were five Air Force bases, plus Fort Sam Houston. I was always sort of near the military.

I was born on this mountain, this mountains my home, she holds me and keeps me from worry and woe.

I don't care what's happening in the mainstream of country music. I haven't in a long time.

You know I ain't never prayed before 'Cause it always seemed to me That prayin's the same as beggin' Lord, I don't take no charity.

I'll never believe that Americans have racticed in our history anything close to the purest form of democracy of the world. Because there are lots of democracies around the world that function better than ours does. It's always been that way. There's some truth to the idea that it's rigged, but there is a way that it's supposed to work that.