And my daddy could play a harmonica and also the guitar, so I guess I got a little bit from both of 'em, but I think mostly from my mother's side of the family.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

You know, it comes from my mother's side of the family. She had seven sisters and one brother, and all of them could play instruments. I suppose I picked it up from that.

I'm gonna do between 75 and 100 dates. A lot of it will be in Laughlin, Nevada; I'll be there for two weeks. And I'll work some casinos here and there, and the fair dates.

And then, when I started to school, I found out I couldn't talk.

But in those days - in the mid-'50s, early '60s - there was less than 300 radio stations that were playing country music and a lot of that wasn't full time.

And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.

I'll do about 13 shows in Branson next year, and I'll be performing at the Grand Palace.

I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.

I'm romantically inclined. No human being on Earth is not attracted to other people. There is no fairy tale that they only have eyes for you. You just choose to act on it or not.

Don't drink in the hotel bar, that's where I do my drinking.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

Love alone is never a good enough reason to marry.

One of the principal occupations of man is to divine woman.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

Painting is seen as picture making, the making of an art object, something that can stand on its own.

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.