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As a songwriter, you respect and appreciate the writings of other people, and I often get asked, are there songs out there I wish I'd written? Yes. Th...more

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Stop this attitude that older people ain't any good anymore! We're as good as we ever were - if we ever were any good.

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I thank God for my failures. Maybe not at the time but after some reflection. I never feel like a failure just because something I tried has failed.

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I think country music is popular - has been popular and will always be popular because I think a lot of real people singing about a lot of real stuff ...more

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Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.