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

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

" I've been fortunate. "

" Swing is my favorite kind of music. "

" 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 love to fish. You can go hours without anything happening, and all of a sudden a big blue marlin comes into the spread and it's cockpit chaos. My dream is to catch a grander, a 1,000 pounder. "

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

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

" 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. "

" In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it. "

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

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

" 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 always enjoy it when I walk on stage. There were some times when I was working so much in the '80s, and I felt really burnt-out. But I'd be up there singing and not be 10,000 million miles away, you know, just opening my mouth and the words coming out. "

" If twang isn't what I do, I don't know what is. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

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