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" 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. "

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

" We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around. "

" I'm a country singer. I love all kinds of music, but country is where my loyalty lies. That's just me and what I do, and I'm not going to change it. "

" I don't mind traveling that much when I can go somewhere and stay there for a while, but touring is different. You rarely see anything. You get there early in the morning and you're resting all day, and you go in and do a sound check, and you do the show, and then bam you're gone. "

" You've got to keep the stage world and your real world separated or you're headed for trouble. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 can only say thank you and thanks also to all of the great songwriters who wrote those wonderful songs that became number ones. "

" 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 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. "

" You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying. "

" I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone. "

" 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 loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry. "

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

" I discovered in college that country music could be fun adding some swing to it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I've always liked Frank Sinata and Big Band music. "

" I'd say three years ago we played in my hometown of San Antonio for 55,000 people at the Alamodome and walking out there with a crowd like that is just, you're excited, you're scared. There are just so many emotions going on. I still get nervous for things like that until after I sing about the first one or two songs, then I settle down. "

" I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years. "

" 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 remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back. "

" Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life... I like to be outdoors, I like to hunt, I like to fish, I like to play golf. "

" I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou. "

" I listen to Mark Chestnutt and think he's a great singer - and he really does good material. "