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

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.

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

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.

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.

No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

Too many things can be free in this world, but freedom is never among them.

Most folk are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.

Time changes all things and cultivates even in herself an appreciation of irony, and, therefore, why shouldn't I have changed a trifle?

If I do the same act that I did in 1995, in essence you're saying (in a robotic voice), 'My mind has never changed'

No possession is gratifying without a companion.