You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.

When you are in your 20's and 30's, you just want a hit record and you don't really care how it happens.

A song is a song and a hit record can change a life.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.

That is a hit record, ... All over the world, that is a hit record.