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" Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason. "

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" I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that. "

" 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'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. "

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

" I'd have to pick cotton for a year to make what I'd make in a week in L.A. "

" Frankly, it is very hard to remember things from the 1970s. "

" 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. "

" I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart. "

" 'True Grit' was fun to do, but I wasn't cut out to be an actor. I made John Wayne look so good, he won his only Oscar. "

" God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that. "

" TV is just an incredible media. "

" I was out of control... I was a mess, but God has forgiven me. "

" 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'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there. "

" I go to a great church. "

" I don't hold grudges. "

" I worked my butt off. "

" I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well. "

" Dean Martin. He was incredible. "

" Some things I don't want to remember. "

" With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow. "

" With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words. "

" Elvis was a great singer. He really was. "

" I used to be just a total jazz freak. People used to say, 'Where's the melody? Is there a melody in there anywhere?' Now I let the music follow the song. "

" I love symphonies. I love string sections. "

" Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money. "

" You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "