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" '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. "

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" I've been every way there is to be. "

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

" I go to a great church. "

" If we grew it, we ate it. If Daddy shot it, Mamma cooked it. "

" I'll tell you, my dad played and sang, and it didn't take me long to figure out that playing a guitar was a whole lot better than getting ahold of a hoe handle or chopping cotton, man. "

" I'm an avid golfer. "

" 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. "

" What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else. "

" I love symphonies. I love string sections. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" If you've got a good melody and a good story married together, that's a good sign for hit-song material. "

" That's what we grew up with - the good songs, the good lyrics, the good big-band stuff. I miss that era. "

" I've been singing and playing the guitar ever since I can remember. "

" Do everything according to God, and be nice, and treat other people the way you would like to be treated. "

" The more you play music, the better you'll get. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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 saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9. "

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

" I have been blessed. I really have. "

" I play guitar, and it's not a prop. "

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