When people ask me who my favorite country singer is, I say, ‘You mean besides George Jones?’
Everything I have and everything I do is now given completely to Jesus Christ.
A rose looks grey at midnight, but the flame is just asleep. And steel is strong because it knows the hammer and white heat.
It’s like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it’s off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think.
Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.
I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
God Ain’t no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.
We’ll all be equal under the grass, and God’s got a heaven for country trash.
All music comes from God.
I’m thrilled to death with life.
I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian.
I’m very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.
God’s the final judge for Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash too. That’s solely in the hands of God.
Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.
As sure as God made black and white, what’s done in the dark will be brought to the light.
When God forgave me, I figured I’d better do it too.
For you I know I’d even try to turn the tide.
There’s a lot of things blamed on me that never happened. But then, there’s a lot of things that I did that I never got caught at.
I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.
The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars.