But now I've been in the arena for 47 years and I stutter less today than I did in those days.

Well, no, you can prepare it all you want, but I'd still stutter.

I remember li'l ol' Hank Jr. - he was just a baby back in them days, you know - but he used to hang around. His mama would bring him around. He was just a natural.

But I've got a lot of ideas, I bought me a ranch in Florida and I still have my farm in Ashland City, Tennessee so I'm gonna spend a little time at each one of those places and you'll probably hear some more songs out of me.

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

I'm not retiring.