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

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.

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.

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

All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!

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

I’m not the most religous person in the world, but I think the good Lord up there has blessed me.

My mother never cursed at home; my father never cursed at home. My father didn’t drink. Even though we were poor, we would say a blessing over the table. So that’s who I am.

No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.

We are not saved in order to be a blessing to other people.

Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.

Life is the same way. In order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.

You are never used of God to bring blessing until God has opened your eyes and made you see things as they are.

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.