You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Know when to hold 'um, know when to fold 'um and know when to walk away from cameramen.

Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, know when to run.

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.

Here's what I've learned about raising boys... if you keep 'em busy, they're fine. You let 'em get bored, they'll dismantle your house board by board.

I feel like I learn something from everything I do.

I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.

I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

I still like going on the road and performing, but it's getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it's getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.

I think when you're in the public eye, you feel a pressure to stay younger looking.

I was raised in the church.

I'm so totally future oriented that, for me, I don't know what the future's about, but I can promise you it's gonna be exciting.

I've always said music should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think.

I've always said that gray hair looks good on everybody but yourself. To me, it makes me look old.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.

The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.

There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.

There's a new hit rock group or singer every five minutes, but with country music, you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Well, I don't think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.

When I think of the things I have, it makes me a little uneasy. I don't want people to think I've lost touch with reality.

You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you'd like to have it done. And I've always been able to surround myself with really good people.

You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

You got to know when to hold em know when to fold em Know when to walk away and know when to run.

With Country Music you have one hit and those people love you forever.

Youve got to know when to hold em know when to fold em know when to walk away know when to run.

Growing older is not upsetting being perceived as old is.

You can't make old friends. You either have them or you don't.

All we need to do is learn not to be afraid of pain. Grit your teeth and let it hurt. Dont deny it dont be overwhelmed by it. It will not last forever. One day the pain will be gone and you will still be there.

She was my darling difficult morose But still my darling.

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

I'll exercise in spurts, usually inspired by a dress that I have to fit into. But once that gown is squeezed into, if I continue to exercise, I get sick or I pull my back. For some reason my body literally rejects exercise.

In earlier times, so many people sang much more. You know as a kid you'd go to some kind of religious training and or summer camp or whatever it was and you'd learn to sing a lot of songs.

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

For me the bulimia was about my emotions. So I stopped suppressing my feelings.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

On the Agriculture Committee, I will be an ardent and strong champion for our farmers to ensure that they are treated fairly, particularly in regards to how their products are priced.

I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.

A good night in is a series of documentaries.

Consequently it will often happen there will be a desire of particular objects, in cases where they cannot be obtained without manifest injury to others.

I can put up a blog in 10 seconds.

I'd love to be the new Jools Holland, but you know, for, like, cooler people.

When patients are admitted to hospital for elective surgery or non-urgent conditions, their vital signs are only monitored every four hours, unless they have been identified as being at high risk of deterioration.

Now I have other demands on my time that are not flexible, I just can't wander into the studio at 2 A.M. like I used to. If I have an idea in the middle of the night, I will go and get the bare bones down, but mostly you can learn to tame it to your needs.

Citizens United didn't work. Hey, Koch brothers, Karl Rove, Shellgame Adelson: Democracy trumps money sometimes.