It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

I might be an endangered species.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

Nobody knows I'm Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I've got the perfect disguise.

I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.