TV is just an incredible media.

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.

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.

I spent some time in Hell.

I like 'me'/'I' songs.

You don't play around with a good song. You try to just say it right in the proper place, and if you get the music and voice in tune, you'll be all right. That's always worked for me.

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.

God only knows just how much I'm going to do, or not going to do.

I worked my butt off.

Some things I don't want to remember.

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 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.

I have been very blessed with some great songs.

I like to play golf. You know, make a little money, lose a little money. Get 10 bucks, lose 20 bucks.

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

I gave John Wayne the push he needed to get that Oscar.

We moved to Los Angeles because our daughter wanted to go to Pepperdine.

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.

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

I've been through a lot of changes.

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.