"He's just a living legend," Lambert said of Merle Haggard. "Just in general as an artist and as a writer, he's real honest, he's always talked openly about his troubles and being in prison and he really lived the songs he wrote, and I loved the honesty in his music. I think that's where I get my love of just honest country music, is from Merle Haggard."

I love ‘The Way I Am.’ That’s one of my favorite songs of his.