Different people have their ways of measuring success, maybe it's not the right way but wrong's what I do best..

I'd rather sing a sad song than eat..

I took my $100,000 and bought a new Corvette, a lot of cocaine, and spent the rest on foolishness..

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….

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

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 ….

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

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

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….

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….

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….

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

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

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….

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….

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

You can't put this possum in a cage.

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….

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….