Quotes from Dickey Betts

'Seven Turns' was a tough album because we knew that the critics would use it to determine whether or not we should have remained broken up.

Human nature is you work shoulder to shoulder in a real emotional kind of setting, and there are jealousies that come up. There's resentment, and resentment turns to just outright bad things.

Now, I'm not the kind of guy who likes to look in the mirror and say, 'Oh, you're the best.'

I had a ukulele when I was about seven. Then I started playing around with the mandolin and the banjo.

All musicians and artists - we all got quirks that have to be put up with at certain times.

When I was a kid in school, and you asked me what I was gonna be, I mean, even as a little first grader, I was gonna be a guitar picker on the 'Grand Ole Opry.' I just had it in my head that that's what I wanted to do, having no idea how it was done.

In rock n' roll music, you almost have to apologize for being around more than four or five years. I don't know why.