Quotes

[his last comment to friend Buddy Holly] Hope your darn ole plane crashes.

[about his "outlaw" image] It was a good marketing tool. In a way, I am that way. You start messing with my music, I get mean. As long as you are honest and up front with me, I will be the same with you. But I still do things my way.

There's always one more way to do something - your way.

Some people have their music. My music has me.

[1984, in an interview in the CMA's "Close Up" magazine] I did more drugs than anybody you ever saw in your life.

I had to change the way I eat. Smoking is what caused my problem. I smoked for 41 years, and I was smoking five and six packs a day in the last few years.