If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.

I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.

I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.'

I didn't say I wasn't gonna do rockabilly. I just said I ain't gonna sing no song that ain't a country song. I won't be known as anything but a country singer.

I remember as a kid being cold a lot, and hungry sometimes. Wed go to bed with just cornbread and milk, and I remember wearing shoes with holes in the bottom. I remember having twine for shoestrings.

I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

I'd like to be remembered as a guy that came along and did his music, did his best and showed up on time, clean and ready to do the job, wrote a few songs and had a hell of a time.

The biggest fool to hit the big time and all I've got to do is act naturally.

I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.

My mother told me on several different occasions that she was livin' her dream vicariously through me. She once said that I was getting to do all the things that she would have wanted to have done.

The last 16 years of my daddys life, he got to work for me, and that made him his own boss and he like that.

You’re only as happy as your least happy child, ’ is the best description of motherhood I have ever read.

Don’t allow your feelings to drive the car

A lot of childhood effort, worry, and whispering goes into cracking the codes of adult life. Children have to be accomplished spies.

An honorable human relationship ... is a process, delicate, violent, often terrifying to both persons involved, a process of refining the truths they can tell each other.

To give you an idea of how fast we travelled - we left with two rabbits and when we arrived we still had only two.

There's good and bad everywhere in any aspect in life. The only people who we can't really trust are politicians. Because those guys lie to everybody and constantly.

Age is an accumulation of life and loss. Adulthood is a series of lines crossed.

Someone who works only for the money will give you trouble one day because of money.

I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.