I'm a member of the Primitive Baptist Church, and they will buy every CD that I have released, but they don't me just to bring the instruments much into the church.

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 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 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.

Hitting a shorter club to these greens means a great, great deal. Younger players are so much more capable length-wise.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

Two-up is Australia's very own way of parting a fool and his money.

History is sympathetic to its authors.

[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.

The story of practically every great fortune starts with the day when a creator of ideas and a seller of ideas got together and worked in harmony.

You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.

All men think that they're nice guys. Some of them are not. Contact me for a list of names.

Artists are rarely members of the popular crowd.

I joined the Navy hoping to be submariner and ended up in the sub service aboard a tender in the Pacific.