A biography for Johnny Paycheckhasn’t been written yet.
“To me, an 'outlaw' is a man that did things his own way, whether you liked him or not.”
“I had it in my mind that nothing good was ever going to happen to me.”
“I sing about things that have always been and always will be.”
“Seems like I've always been my own worst enemy.”
“I sing as hard for 10 as I do for 10,000.”
“My dad taught me that if you're gonna be ashamed of something, then don't do it.”
“I stayed mad at the world when I was young. It wasn't temper, it was attitude.”
“I'm basically a pretty level-headed guy.”
“It's hard to explain how you feel after 27 years, when you finally hit big.”
“I think my best times were in the seventies, when I made the comeback. Then there was '76, when 'Shove It' came along.”
“Hank Williams was my idol. He was the first real, wonderful outlaw individual in the business.”
“Billy Sherrill is the master to me, and I enjoyed every minute working with him.”
“I hope it doesn't come to the place where people come to see an outlaw instead of a singer.”
“I've got pride In my profession and I want to be judged on my ability, not my background.”
“When people don't understand something, they condemn it. That's what's happened to me. They've condemned me without taking time to understand me.”
“I'm not much of a talker.”
“I guess I'm pretty hard headed and stubborn.”
“I think some of my greatest creative stuff was in the 1960s, but I think the most commercial stuff, things that made a lot of sense for the time, was the CBS stuff.”
“I know what it's like to be a loser.”
“I'm a Gemini, an adventurer.”