“I want to record if the Lord wants me to still record, and I just want to do my work on the road as long as I got those fans out there.”

Today they forget you in five years. They give an artist nowadays four or five years and that’s it.

If people liked your singing well enough, if you were special to them, then you never left their minds throughout all of the years.

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 family the way they should be treated.

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

Anybody who loves country music loves gospel.

Be real about what you do. Stay true to the voice inside you.

You can’t put this possum in a cage

I just want to keep living on and enjoying food! Even though I’m gaining weight,

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

There, gleaming in the glow, was that ten-horsepower rotary engine under a seat.

I’d rather sing a sad song than eat.

No matter what song I recorded or sang, I did it my way.

Even they are competing with the same type of problem that I’m competing with.

I would have loved to had that break, but it never was offered to me, a job in that field, so naturally, I got lost on that other road.

I sing from my heart, I love country music and I love the people that respond to it.

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 person can follow.

Farewell, my old fan. / Having scribbled on it, / What could I do but tear it / At the end of summer?

You can fan the flames with hate or stroke the fire with love, either way, it’s going to burn.

I’m still the same. That’s why the fans love me. Because they need stability in the industry.

Be your own biggest fan, your own biggest believer, and put it on your back and carry the weight.

A lot of artists that I’ve met let me know they’re huge fans of mine.

I am simply a product of people I rock with.

True music makes true fans.

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.