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.

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.

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.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

I love love because it comes in so many forms shapes sizes and colours. It fits everyone.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

Refuse to be average.

If you look back on all the teachers that you liked, I am sure you will find they were very entertaining.

All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

I'm a small shifty kind of guy.

Being frozen into the passive position of an object whose very existence depends on the eye of its beholder turn the educated modern Western women into a harem slave.

Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.

Grace removes obstacles that we don’t even know are there. Grace is what arranges our lives so we are forced to look within.

There is no end to renunciation.