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

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.

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.

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.

Fighting with tangles, fighting with curls, the poor barber yanked, the poor barber pulled, until with one last effort(and to the wonder of us all)a GINORMOUS Polar Bearlanded on the floor.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

Liberals subscribe to the new flexible, pluralistic definition of the family; their defense of families carries no conviction.

The fact that few painter-fine-artists used photography in their work made it appealing.

The cat lives alone, has no need of society, obeys only when she pleases, pretends to sleep that she may see more clearly, and scratches everything on which she can lay her paw.

I learn things late-and only the hard way.

I'm so respectable I'm getting scared ... I must be doing something wrong.

I'll have another beer. I'm not driving.