I like for it to be mountain music or old-time country music or traditional bluegrass. Either one will fit me. It's traditional, basically.

I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.

I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.

The soundtrack of O Brother is the most publicity I've gotten. I don't feel that I have lost any of my old fans, but I have gained new ones.

You give out the words and then sing them. You give out the words, you know, and the people can hear what you're giving out, and they sing that song or that line and they do the same thing again.

I believe in my music.

I've done it all. I'm thankful and proud of what I've accomplished in my life. I hope to keep doing it.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

No pleasure here on earth I find For in this world I'm bound to ramble.

I don't see any harm in brining an instrument into the church itself.

I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.

No matter who’s looking at you, love, honesty, and kindness will always make you beautiful!

You may be a redneck if... you have spent more on your pickup truck than on your education.

This is Wall Street, and today is important. Because tomorrow, July 4th, I intended to make my first million dollars--an excitingday in a man's life. The enterprise was slightly illegal.

Just because one of Arlene's husbands was a murderer is no reason for me to be ugly

If you can keep your son off the pipe and your daughter off the pole, you're ahead of the game.

Driving is the only thing I love about F1.

Any marriage that survives a big wedding can probably survive.

That's how it is in heaven. It's just love, and no one forgets who they love.

But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.

There are many crooked lines and one straight line. Which is the line of truth? Why the straight line? Truth is always the shortest distance between two points.