Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.

It was and is always nice to work with the kids.

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

I use vaporizers a lot. It cuts down on the heat and the smoke. And for a singer that's not a bad idea.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

A lot of country music is sad.