“You can’t put this possum in a cage”

If you’re gonna drive me crazy baby, drive me to drink.

It didn’t make much difference what time of night it was, whenever [my father would] come in drunk, he’d say, “Get up and sing me some songs.”

I love what I’ve done and I just can’t stand to see what they’re doing to it. But I’ve learned to live with it because that’s what they’ve done. They’ve come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It’s not country anymore.

We didn’t want to sing but we sang.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, ‘Lord, please give me a hit.’ I want one so bad.

The only thing different between sinners and saints is one is forgiven and the other ain’t.

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.

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.

Bird cage is nice only when it is empty!

Those blue eyes that had stopped my heart the first time she looked at me found me in the crowd.” -Cage

You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to fly sun to sun, over continents.

What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.

He opened her cages, and freed the things inside.

But are they protection or a cage? These ribs that ensnare my heart so.

The more you judge others. The more you cage yourself.

He was unhinged. Shameless. Everything wrong and everything right. And he held the key to my cage in his palm.