The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

The love of these people and of my fans mean more than any award or special accomplishment.

There's a place for all types of country music as long as there is honesty and realness and a real human experience for the fans.

We are losing our superstars like Johnny and June Carter Cash and that breaks my heart.

The danger is in pleasing an immediate public: the immediate public that comes around you and takes you in and accepts you and gives you success and everything. Instead of that, you should wait for fifty years or a hundred years for your true public. That is the only public that interests me.

Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Money doesn't make me tick. This definition of success doesn't make me tick. Managing some of the biggest stars in the world doesn't make me tick. Making my family proud makes me tick.

I think it's real easy to be famous these days; it's not real easy to sustain success.