“It might have taken an hour and a half or more for me to get to the liquor store, but get there I did.”

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.

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline.

Maybe some folks drink due to body chemistry and others due to their lazy characters. Maybe some have drinking problems, while others have problems enough to drink.

Country music should speak directly and simply about the highs and lows of life. Something that anyone can relate to.

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, but with all the fans I’ve got out there,

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

You never see yourself as others do but I’ve always beeen proud to be part of country music and I hope that the format is proud of me.

Loneliness is lessened when you’re lonely by choice.

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

A key glistening in the ignition. I imagine the top speed for that old mower was five miles per hour.

There’s bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much.

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 wrong with their nose, if it’s a little crooked, it’s got to be straightened up.

Maybe some folks are alcoholics and others are just voluntary drunks.

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

God bless the boys from Memphis, blue suede shoes, and Elvis.

I would just like to say thank you to each one of my fans for supporting me all these years and continuing to come to the concerts and buy my music. I owe them everything.

Illogically, I tend to assume that if you ( Philip Larkin) dream of caning schoolgirls bottoms, it disqualifies you from dismissing half the nation as work-shy.

So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

A good half of the art of living is resilience.

Guys, I don’t want to tell you half-truths, unless they’re completely accurate.

The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them.

Nearly half of all murders were committed by friends, neighbors, and casual acquaintances.

You grow up real quick, a half-Mexican in a sailor’s suit, because I’d be riding the streetcar to school everyday.

In America most everybody who’s Italian is half Italian. Except me. I’m all Italian. I’m mostly Sicilian, and I have a little bit of Neapolitan in me. You get your full dose with me.