Fans will praise you, scold you, and offer helpful advice. Fans will also defend you.

For most entertainers, there is a single experience, one defining moment, when confidence replaces the self-doubt that most of us wrestle with.

The tastes of country music fans are not limited to the narrow range defined by consultants and programmers and record company moguls.

It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.

I finally came to terms with manic depression and lithium. I've taken lithium regularly for the past few years and have had no further bouts with manic depression.

Fans are what make a performer and I've always taken them seriously.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

There only have been two people on this earth that I was nervous around: Chet Atkins and Mickey Mantle. It's because of the respect I have for them.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.

Your on the planet too. Why should James Bond have all the action, fun, money, and resort hotel living.

May the Lord grant you wisdom to live wisely.

But I think it's hard for me to only put out one record a year. Because I get too antsy. But it's good I'm learning to do that, because each record counts. And you should make it count.

The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.

Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.

It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow.

We all strive to find moments of clarity, of order.

No other commodity enjoys as much universal acceptability and marketability as gold.

A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

I love the most the students with troubled lives.