"When I'm home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we're not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry."

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

"I'm gonna be making records anyway, even if I had to sell 'em out of the trunk of my car. I'm that kind of musician and singer."

"Adjusting to the passage of time, I think, is a key to success and to life: just being able to roll with the punches."

"I want my audience to know me for my work, not because of who I'm dating or what drugs I'm on or what club I went to."

"One state retiree, 49 years old, paid, over the course of his entire career, a total of $124,000 towards his retirement pension and health benefits. What will we pay him? $3.3 million in pension payments over his life and nearly $500,000 for health care benefits - a total of $3.8m on a $120,000 investment."

"Oh, give us the man who sings at his work."

"Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."