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.

Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.

Heroes put to the test, keeping a promise, doing their best.

I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.