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

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

And I got to know Red Foley well. And I got to know Lefty really well, he was a great guy.

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.

But if you put a script up in front of me to read, or a cue card, I couldn't do it without stuttering.

And I began to tell little anecdotes that had happened to me, and people would laugh. And I began to like that, you know. But I knew that, 'cause I'd do that in school, but I wouldn't do it out there in front of all them people.