Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don't think I ever fired anybody.

I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.