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

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.

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

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.

I hear some new artists that sound country but the record labels and country radio lean more toward a more rock feel for what gets signed to a label and played on the radio.

But you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It’s a very big thing.

Anger does not justify harmful responses.

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you.

A good test of a relationship is how a person responds to the word ‘no.’ Love respects ‘no,’ control does not.

So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them.

When someone tells us something we’re doing wrong on the boards, we try to respond, we try to be responsive to the fan boards, but yeah, I can’t read them.

While some misuse their freedom to perpetrate evil, millions respond by feeling compelled to use their freedom to do good.

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.