I don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.

I still love making music. And I still love performing for my fans. I'd like to thank them for sticking with me through thick and thin.

I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.

I'm a take-me-as-l-am person, and all the rest is water under the bridge. You can't change yesterday any more than you can predict what's gonna happen tomorrow.

I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.

It was Dec. 22, 1981. I figured I had messed up enough, and I decided to have a little faith and let God take over. It definitely straightened my act up in a hurry.

Great stories start with great opening lines. 'I'm a lineman for the county' - what a great way to start a song.

Success is not getting what you want, it's enjoying what you have.

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

I've laughed, and I've cried. Laughing has got it over crying.

We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.

Life is too short not to enjoy it.

There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.

I want to see myself as being the king of this: the king of music, man, and everything I lay my hands on.

I'm versatile, so however the beat makes me go on it, that's just what it do.

I got books full of music.

I take life one day at a time.

I try to pace my life out and try not to be too involved with negativity and try to fix what I can fix in my life.

Sometimes I say stuff that people may see things more than what I'm seeing. I just say what God sends me, even if I don't know what I'm talking about or I can't break down the revelation of it. I just take what I receive and put it out there to the people.

You always had a few brothers that was speaking on Islam, like my brother's uncle. It wasn't big in my neighborhood, but with certain brothers, it was big. I respected it because Islam is my home. I found my home when Islam came to me. I've been living with it ever since.

At the end of the day, on the day of judgment day when everybody be judged, you're going to get your fair share.

What's right is right, and what's wrong is wrong.

I don't know. I just do what I do, man, and it's a blessing for people to respect what I do.

That's what I do: I drop albums, and I just keep it moving.