God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

I like 'me'/'I' songs.

I spent some time in Hell.

Ah, the Wrecking Crew! They played on everything that came out of L.A. Oh, that was a good band. You really enjoyed going to work. You played for everyone; it didn't matter what it was.

Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.

TV is just an incredible media.

Some people have said that I can 'hear' a hit song, meaning that I can tell the first time a song is played for me if it has potential. I have been able to hear some of the hits that way, but I can also 'feel' one.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

Honesty I can take. Lies I get upset about.

Music is music. It doesn't matter if I am trying to aim at country or trying to aim at pop.

I just tell you, the Lord's been good to me. Even if I was a rounder, He's been really, really nice to me.

We lived on the farm, and our mode of transportation was wagon and team. No electricity. I'm the seventh son of 12 kids - eight boys and four girls. Mom and Dad handled that very well. But I wanted to get out.

I'm really not a songwriter, so if I hear a song, I feel it and like it, I'll do it. But I'll make it the way I want to hear it.

When we cut 'Strangers In The Night,' we did the whole song in two takes.

If I get a song - a good song - I just sing it the way I hear it in my head. If anybody else wanted to add whistles and bells and chains rattling, that's fine. Just not too much. I actually just do things as straight ahead as possible.

I realize you are going to make mistakes through life. Just don't make any bad ones, you know. Like all of my records are perfect records, but I did make mistakes on them.

A good song is a good song.

I have been blessed. I really have.

I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.

God saved me.