You can shut out the world. But you always have to stop, and the world is always waiting when you do..

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you. Don't let the 'business' change what it is you love because the people, the fans, respo….

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask..

If you're gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink..

You can't put this possum in a cage.

There's nothing prettier in the world than a melody. I can get lost in a song with a melody..

Loneliness is lessened when you're lonely by choice..

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat. A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that o….

I've had a lot of practice and wrong's what I do best..

I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it. You never see yourself as others do but I've always beeen proud ….

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks. Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy chara….

Walk through this world with me, go where I go. Share all your dreams with me, for I love you so..

There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glor….

I just thank God I'm still here and the main thing is to try to get closer and closer to Him as much as I can so that I can treat my friends and my f….

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again..

If drinking don't kill me, her memory will..

He stopped loving her today, they placed a wreath upon his door..

Country music to me is heartfelt music that speaks to the common man. It is about real life stories with rather simple melodies that the average pers….

Everybody knows in the business how I feel about country music. I'm an old traditionalist. Then they just call me an old man and stuck in my old ways….

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain't..

A new artist today has to get their teeth fixed, has to tighten their jeans up, and they have to get 'em the right kind of hat, and if anything's wro….