Thank you for all the love you gave me. There could be no one stronger. Thank you for the many beautiful songs. They will live long and longer.

I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.

I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself.

the greatest single portfolio of songs ever written by any one person in the history of country music.

We've been looking at building on to the church and talking about it for the last two or two-and-a-half years, ... We're working to reach out into the community.

It was exactly where I had anticipated,