If I feel like doing something, I do it. If I feel like saying something, I say it. If I feel like dancing, I do. If I don't, I don't.

I have always loved Waffle House. It's been like an oasis in the desert many times late at night after one of my concerts.

You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.

New York City is a notoriously hard market to perform country music in.

People get passionate about a song. It's been my experience if you put out radio candy, something commercial, it doesn't sell records.

Guitar playing is not my strong suit. I cut my finger off, working in an oil field, and it don't work anymore, so I'm limited as to what I can do on the guitar.

I only record songs that I really like and believe in and can sing with conviction.

George Jones was my friend and I loved him.

I've never been trained as an actor. I'm no Phillip Seymour Hoffman or Johnny Depp.

I don't do the same show on any two nights.

...the secret to joy is to keep seeking God where we doubt He is.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

No place worth knowing yields itself at sight, and those the least inviting on first view may leave the most haunting pictures upon the walls of memory.

Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.

Everyone on the bench stands for the man coming out of the game.

How pale is the art of sorcerers, witches, and conjurors when compared with that of the government's Treasury Department!

Whenever it's suggested that our sponsors have some kind of influence or control of what we cover in some kind of censorship through financial pressure, it's rubbish. That's never happened.

No honest theologian therefore can deny that his acceptance of Jesus as Christ logically binds every Christian to a belief in reincarnation - in Elias case (who was later John the Baptist) at least.

If you're not the best in the world at what you do, then you have to get better.