“I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.”
“Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys are simply the best band that ever was.”
“Sinatra, in my opinion, is possibly the greatest male singer of all time.”
“You know, traditional country music is something that's going to be around forever.”
“I love the song 'El Rey.' And for years, I never knew what the song was totally about. It was something new for me. I'd never sung a song in Spanish before. Then I got the translation and saw what a really cool song it was.”
“I loved making Pure Country. It was a great learning experience for me, seeing another part of the entertainment industry.”
“I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.”
“We work hard when we're in the studio, but then when we take our breaks, we walk outside and look around.”
“I used to do a lot of interviews in the early '80s, when my career started, but it came to a point when I decided I didn't want to talk anymore, and people kind of understood that and left me alone.”
“I just continue to look for different material, great material, as good as I can find, and try to go in there and do as good a job as I can do in making it a record. That's all you can expect. That's all that you can do.”