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" I've been blessed with the ability to sing, and that has taken me so many places I never would have gone otherwise. "

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" Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time. "

" I want to reach the point where people hear my name and immediately think of real country music. "

" I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was. "

" I've just tried for all of these years to find the best records, the best songs that I could find that fit me, and I've had great people to work with all these years. "

" I think 'Beyond the Blue Neon' is the best I've ever done. "

" I get asked sometimes 'What's the highlight of my career?' because I've been doing it for so long, and I always have a hard time coming up with something, because so many good things have happened. "

" You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever. "

" I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going. "

" I like people who are loyal to me, and I like to be loyal, too. "

" Even though I've been doing it for so long, I still feel fresh. Even when I walk out on stage, I still feel pretty much the same as I've always felt. "

" I think the melody is the first time I hear in a song and if I like the melody, then I'll pay closer attention to the lyrics. "

" This is the kind of problem you want to have! Country radio has been great to me my whole career. I can't thank those folks enough. "

" I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do. "

" I've been fortunate. "

" I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out. "

" When I think about putting together an album, the process of listening to hundreds of songs each time and picking out the best 10 or so that will go on the record, it really sinks in as to just how many songs I've listened to all these years. "

" My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. "

" Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was. "

" I think that all my albums are different enough where I don't feel like I did this the last time. "

" You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends. I'm just a young buck out here trying to keep in that same circle with the rest of 'em. "

" I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can. "

" Of all the songs I've recorded, 'Amarillo By Morning' always sticks out in my mind. "

" If you start out trying to achieve a specific thing - like doing stadium shows or going into the studio and doing an album - the end result is what counts. "

" I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring. "

" I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities. "

" If it's a good song and it fits me, that's what I'm going to do, I'm not out there trying to change the world. I'm just out there trying to sing country music the best way I can. "

" I'm always looking for great songs, and not being much of a songwriter, I depend on great songwriters to send them to me. I go through tons of stuff, and sometimes you just find material that kind of fits and becomes something special. "

" I'm just not going to tour. One point I want to get across to everybody is that I'm still going to make records and I may still do some events. It's not the last time I'm onstage. It's been a part of my life for too long to quit everything. I have done it since the '80s, and I think it's time now to maybe see if I can live without that part. "