“Everybody was going on about it, so mom started hounding me more.”

Wembley way is beginning to blacked with people in terms of red and blue

I probably should put a little more energy into it.

Did you stand there in shock at the sight of that black smoke risin’ against that blue sky?

Probably some of the songs I never even really listened to the lyrics.

Those are the kind of people who like the kind of music I’m making.

Did you shout out in anger, in fear of your neighbor or did you just sit down and cry?..

I’ve been a lot of places, and my wife, Denise, she likes a lot of the fancy restaurants.

My mother kept asking me, “When are you going to do a gospel album?” And I’ve always wanted to do a gospel album.

The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.

I’ve always said that if you have songs on the radio and get played, you’ve got to have a tour to support that.

I think if you retire from touring, then people think you are retired.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don’t know?

Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

A country song is a song about life.

There’s no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

A lot of times when songwriters get together and write a song…

I’ll never have a wedding. I don’t want to marry just to do what everybody else is doing.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

Everybody’s going through changes. No one knows what’s going on.

As long as I stay engaged with everybody else, then I’ll create more comedy. It’s just when I shut off and stay at home… What helps me is just to keep moving.

I was by far the least popular of the Blue Collar crew when we started. There was a definite pecking order, and everybody knew it.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

Nobody has wrestled everybody in the business like I have, especially not Bret Hart.