"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."

"You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever... I'm not worried about it."

"I don't think my music's as traditional as people make it out."

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

"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'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 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."

"I'm going to write, and after two years, when I've quit touring, if a special event comes up that I want to do, by all means I will do it, but as far as a structured tour goes, at the last date of 2014 goes, that will be it for touring."

"Life isn't about the breathes you take, it's the moments that take your breathe away."

"Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life."

"I didn't want to be 40 or 50 years old and still playing clubs, I didn't feel like I was making any progress, and I actually gave the band notice at one point. I began to have doubts about my abilities."

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

"I've always thought that whether I'm writing or not, I've gotta pick the best songs, whether or not they're mine. I'm not gonna sing them just because I wrote them. I've gotta find the best songs to make the best record I can."

"Baby fall into my kiss It should just happen like this... ....drink up this love...."

"Life's not the breath you take, but the moments that take your breath away."

"Life is not breaths you take, but the moments that take your breath away."

"Life is not the breaths you take but the moments that take your breath away."

"We've got to live in the future now. As good as this (past) weekend was, you've got to let it go and get by it."

"One of the things that strikes me is so many of the critics are people whose lifestyle doesn't change when the price of fuel changes, or if they keep a Wal-Mart store out of their area."

"[It's just the way Palmer goes about life. At a golf tournament, he and Lewis were playing with a corporate chief executive. The man marveled at Palmer's natural abilities.] I see it every day, ... But you would never know he is so good at everything. He just shows up, performs great and sort of slips out the door."

"Life flows on within you and without you."

"Life goes on within you and without you.’ I just have a belief that this is only one little bit, the physical world is one little bit of the universe.-"

"What is life?"

"The only thing we really have to work at in this life is how to manifest love."