I'm an avid golfer.

I go to a great church.

Actually, I believe in the institution of marriage.

It's easier being with somebody who's got some sense.

Our dad taught us not to be a loafer and a slough-off, that you don't blame somebody else for your misfortunes.

God's law is God's law, period. Teach your children that.

I needed a capo - a clamp to hold down the strings - so my daddy made me one out of a corn on the cob and a rubber band.

All I ever wanted to do was play the guitar; singing was a sideline.

I played on a lot of Sinatra sessions. He was simply awesome. He liked to laugh, and he could be one of the boys when he wanted. But he was also a very serious performer.

When I did 'Wichita Lineman,' it was as good as I could do it, so I keep doing it that way. It's such a haunting song.

I love symphonies. I love string sections.

To play with a symphony today is just fabulous.

All my records - 'By the Time I Get to Phoenix,' 'Wichita Lineman,' 'Galveston,' 'Rhinestone Cowboy,' 'Dreams of the Everyday Housewife' - they all had strings on them.

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

The very first big one I had was 'Turn Around and Look At Me.'

I love singing. I just love it.

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

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

I am just trying to do a song the best possible way I can.

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.

I don't hold grudges.

I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old or a year old or something like that.

Dean Martin. He was incredible.

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

I can read a chord chart, but I couldn't read a note chart.

I would rather do live than any kind of lip-synching or something like that. I don't like to lip-synch.

I can't be alone.

With the first money I got, I built my parents a house back home, gave them a string of credit cards, and said 'Go.'

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.

Hank Williams' music - it just doesn't go away, for some reason.

I'm running my life according to what I know to be true from the Bible and the old scribes.

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.

They could never put me in a slot. They couldn't say Glen was 'country,' 'pop' or 'rock.' I'm crock, OK? A cross between country and rock. Call me crock.

Picking a guitar was a lot easier than picking cotton.

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

'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.

I learned it was crucial to play right on the edge of the beat... It makes you drive the song more. You're ahead of the beat, but you're not.

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

Elvis was a great singer. He really was.

With the TV shows, you get eight zillion people watching you. I was really surprised at the way everything went. I knew television was powerful, but that was just... wow.

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.'

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

Perhaps I've found the secret for an unhappy private life. Every three years, I go and marry a girl who doesn't love me, and then she proceeds to take all my money.

I can think of only two or three songs out of hundreds I've recorded that I performed as originally written. I like to become intimate with the material and change it to suit me.

I've always been forgetful.

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

I'm from so far back in the sticks that they had to pump the light in there.

I saw my first indoor bathroom when I was 9.

I've been every way there is to be.

I'm not an actor, really. I can play myself pretty well.