I've Always Stood Up For Country Music.

If You Just Do 50 To 60 Shows A Year, It's Not That Much Time Away From Home.

As Long As I'm Still Able To Have A Hit On The Radio And Sell A Few Albums And Some Tickets, I Don't See That It Would Be Worth Retiring.

There's No Hall Of Fame For That Working Class Hero, No Statue Carved Out Of Stone. And His Greatest Reward Is The Love Of A Woman And His Children.

My Mother Kept Asking Me, "when Are You Going To Do A Gospel Album?" And I've Always Wanted To Do A Gospel Album. Everybody Was Going On About It, So Mom Started Hounding Me More.

If Anything Good Came Out Of 9/11, To Me, Was That People Were So Cynical About The World - All You Hear About On The News Is All The Bad Stuff Everyday, But What Was Refreshing To Me Was After That, You Saw How Many Good People There Are Out There. For Every One Bad One, There's A Thousand Good Ones.