When I was younger, I thought about retiring.

I really like Alan Jackson, in Country Music. I think he's really very, very talented along with George Jones, and Merle Haggard, the same old favorites.

There's no way to be able to tell what it's like to be a country singer until you're walking in the shoes.

You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.

Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

You can run for cover, you can run for help. You can run to your lover, but you can't ever run from yourself.

I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.

Love should be simple, but it's not. Hate should be hard, but it's easy.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

The world says they'll never make it, love says they will.

But the main thing is that medication, too, is not all the help.

I don't miss you, I miss who I thought you were.

I want a house that has got over all its troubles I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

A feeling of discouragement when you slip up is a sure sign that you put your faith in deeds

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

All I can go on is my own value system.

Golf is a percentage game, and I play the percentages.

Everything in my life was about performance when I was doing 'The Partridge Family.'

A message to progressives: By all means, hang Senator Joe Lieberman in effigy.

Everything terrible is something that needs our love.

Mankind divides itself into two classes,--benefactors and malefactors. The second class is vast; the first a handful.