Hank Williams, Jr.
I am and always have been a football guy. My relationship with 'Monday Night Football' lasted 21 years, which is unprecedented for any theme song to be on the air that long.Collection: Relationship
Listen, ladies and gentlemen. America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.
Listen, I am who I am. I have always been true to who I am and that is why the fans support me.
The bottom line is, between Sonny Osborne and Earl Scruggs, I better know how to play banjo. I had the greatest teachers in the world.
Me and a few of my rowdy friends stole the wheels and tires off a brand-new limited-edition Lincoln Mark III that my manager, Merle Kilgore, had just bought. We left it up on blocks and then we sold his own wheels and tires back to him the next day.
I love this country and I am very vocal about my thoughts and beliefs. America is the greatest nation on the planet!
When Mother put me out on stage at eight years old, everyone wanted me to be just like Daddy.
I like metal detecting, collecting Civil War artifacts, fishing, hunting, cigars, Labradors, the outdoor life, my baseball game, football.
You've got to want to put out good music. You've got to give the people their money's worth.
I more or less said I was going to try to make an existence off my daddy's royalties or I'm going to make it on my own. Daddy is a legend and he don't need me to keep him alive.
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let's say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that's just the way I do it.
But I can say that the business has changed drastically since I started at 8 years old. Everything from the way you tour to how you make a record and how you release the music.
Most all of my awards are at the Country Music Hall of Fame. You know we had the longest running exhibit in the Hall of Fame history with Family Tradition. More people went to see Daddy's stuff and all the things I have collected over the years than any other exhibit.
But my whole career, I have done things my way and the way that I wanted.
I love what Eric Church is doing. He and I are friends, and he opened some shows for us a few years ago and I would fly him home on the jet. He is a good one.
Growing up on Franklin Road in Nashville, I had everyone from Johnny Cash to Fats Domino swinging by my house to talk with my mom about my dad. So I had some pretty diverse influences, and I think that shows in my music.
I just play the music that I'm gonna play and don't really worry about how people perceive it.
Many people don't realize that June Carter Cash was my godmother. She and mother were very tight.
You know, I don't sit here and watch, uh, I don't watch CMT videos and listen to country radio all the time.
You better mean what you're singing or you need to get out of this business. That's where I'm really lucky because they know I mean what I'm singing or I ain't gonna sing it.
I have got the most loyal, hardcore fans that there are. I could do 10 shows, a hundred shows or 30. I am the most blessed guy on the block. They're gonna be there, and it amazes me.
I always ask any of the artists that open up if they know 'Family Tradition', since that's my last song in the set, and if they do, I normally ask them to come on out and take a verse and have fun. When that song is done, I am gone.
I only do about 25 shows a year and I do not really do tours.
Music lives in cycles. One day, one type of music is on top and the next year another genre is on top. Either the fans love you or they jump from one artist to another.
I'm going to try to make happy songs or some political songs, like 'A Country Boy Can Survive' - something people can get excited about.
But, I enjoy music from lots of people. And you also have to also remember that I grew up in a household where people like Fats Domino, Little Richard, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis, Earl Scruggs, and so many others were at mama's house. So, I heard everything growing up.
Being a Williams is not easy in this business because the bar is set very high to achieve success. Daddy set some high standards for all of us.
I guarantee you there's a bunch of the twentysomethings that don't know that, don't know I play banjo and bluegrass.
Some high society lady said is your horse outside? No ma'am, he's between my legs, but your too fat to ride.Collection: Horse
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time.Collection: Mind Your Own Business
Somewhere between raising hell and amazing grace, Lord I know just how they feel.Collection: Philosophy
We say grace and we say ma'am. If you ain't in to that, we don't give a damn.Collection: Religious
Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord.Collection: Religious
We've got a Muslim for a president who hates cowboys, hates cowgirls, hates fishing, hates farming, loves gays and we hate him!Collection: Hate
The greatest of men, they don't get too big to cry. They just loose faith in love and life.Collection: Life And Love
You can do anything that you wanna do, but uh-uh, don't step on my cowboy boots.Collection: Cowboy
Let me sum it up for ya: We got some people who work for a living, and we got some people who vote for a living.Collection: People
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.Collection: Dad
I'd love to spit some Beechnut in that dude's eye and shoot him with my ole forty-five.Collection: Revenge
Every time the media brings up the tea party, it's painted as racist and extremists - but there's never a backlash, no outrage to those comparisons. ... Working-class people are hurting - and it doesn't seem like anybody cares. When both sides are high-fiving it on the ninth hole when everybody else is without a job - it makes a whole lot of us angry. Something has to change. The policies have to change.Collection: Hurt
I get whiskey bent and hell bound.Collection: Evil
Some were beggars, some were kings, and some were masters of the arts. But in their shame they're all the same, these men with broken hearts.Collection: Art
America is still a country of choices and options. And I have a lot of them.Collection: Country
There is no freedom of speech if you're a conservative.Collection: Freedom Of Speech
If they don't have the Grand Ole Opry, like they do in Tennessee, just send me to hell or New York City, it would be about the same to me.Collection: New York
I went and got a tire tool out of my truck, and straightened him out as cold as a block of ice. It was an attitude adjustment, and it'll work every time.Collection: Revenge
I'd put Hank Williams picture on one hundred dollar bills.Collection: Dollar Bills
You're singing a song about making love to your drummer, well gay guitar pickers don't turn me on.Collection: Song
Old Hank would be proud, and Elvis would too, cause we like our country mixed with some big city blues.Collection: Country
I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.Collection: Girl