I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

My partner and I won the race, and I threw my hat into the air and bent to pick it up. Everyone started laughin' because I had split the back end of my pants out, and I wasn't wearing shorts.

I don't know what makes a guy want to write songs and sing, but if you've got a message, you want to get it across. When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.

Sometimes a hard day's work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

Mostly it would be those who rode in a particular even would hang out with those who rode in the same event.

They were so good that you just had to sing the song to them once and they got it. It's amazing. Sometimes it didn't come out the way you wanted, but it was good.

You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.

I've had this song in a drawer for a long time, maybe seven or eight years. Every time I'd do an album, I'd take it out and listen to it, and always liked what it had to say. Plus when Garth came in and sang on it, that made it really special.

When I come up with an idea about the way I feel, I can really state it strongly in a song.

And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.

My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.

To me, Garth, he's kind of like my guardian angel. It's like every time I need some help, he's there.

Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.

If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones.

I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.

I always was one who didn't take things for granted. But I think I do appreciate things more now. The small moments of joy that we find each day are so much more precious now than when I looked at them before.

You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.

Why not just do something a little more on the gentle side?

I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.

Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. They're just goin' all the time.

Anything to do with the land, I love.

Shoot, every time you get on an animal, you take your life in your hands.

This record is probably as easy as anything I've ever done.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

I can remember sittin' in a cafe when I first started in rodeo, and waitin' until somebody got done so I could finish what they left.

Sometimes a hard days work is easier than a lot of things you can meet in life.

If youre lucky enough to draw a good horse you still have to ride him then the next ones.

I did work out every day. I needed it to have the endurance to do what needed to be done and not get hurt. I have such a new respect for action stars now.

I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day or the day after and talk about something else and sort of get over it.

My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

I want to have babies one day but not right now. When I do it I want to do it really well. I want it to be my best project in life.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

I just wrote one song at a time. Kinda like an alcoholic. One day at a time.

Working mothers do an hour more per day than working fathers do and working mothers do on average an hour more per day with the kids than working fathers do.

When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

George Pal had total control, and he was there on the set every day. You never met a more charming man in your entire lifetime - what a lovely gentleman.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Since the beginning, I always loved the game. When you grow up in Montreal, one day you want to be a professional hockey player. When I was six or seven, I knew that was what I wanted.

Depending on what day of the week it is and what time of the month it is, I'm a good friend or not a good friend. I'm more or less a good mom or not a good mom, more or less a good mate or not a good mate. That's just life, whether or not you're public.

Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.

A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.