To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.

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.

We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.

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.

Lately I've heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I've been idle, don't mean that I'm tame.

I say, Lord, do right be me, I'm tired of being lonesome, on'ry, and mean.

Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason... I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn't know how, but somehow I'd caused it.