I felt my music wasn't aiming at anybody. Everything I was doing was because it was a good song.
I don't have Alzheimer's. I have part-timer's.
I'm an avid golfer.
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.
I listened to a battery radio, old country and pop stuff. Because I was singing all the time, my dad bought me a $7.50 guitar.
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 got to play with the big guys, the Wrecking Crew. They just blew me away. I learned a lot of stuff from those guys.
The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'
I was very candid in my book because I want people to know the truth... and that people can change for the better.
We didn't have electricity when I was a kid. We had to watch TV by candlelight. No, that's a silly joke.
I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.
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 don't really classify 'Wichita Lineman' as country.
There's no pillow as soft as a clear conscience.
With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'
Dean Martin. He was incredible.
I've often asked myself, how much information can the brain actually hold? There'll probably come a day when you're able to download it; that's what you have to do when the machine's full.
Daddy - I remember when he first let me drive the cultivator for him, you know... He eased you into the hard work that you had to do later.
I just wanted to do a music show, with the whole realm of music from Ella Fitzgerald to rock bands like Cream to Kenny Rogers. We had a lot of country, but we did every kind of music. The Monkees were on, and so was Johnny Cash.
Roger Miller opened a lot of people's eyes to the possibilities of country music, and it's making more impact now because it's earthy material: stories and things that happen to everyday people. I call it 'people music.'
