In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley.

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.

In a world of common nonsense, our best defence is common sense.

A company is only as good as the people it keeps.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

I didn't want normal until I didn't have it anymore

All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.

If you're unhappy in a relationship, I think you just don't trust yourself for getting into another one.

Logos is the formal cause of the kosmos and all things, responsible for their nature and configuration.

It is perfectly American to be wrong.

Only hire people you want to have dinner with.

Don Jazzy and I have a past, I never dated Wizkid