If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

Nothing makes us so beautiful as our smiles.

How to build a fire: stay true to your perspective! Then burn.

For every King is right in his own eyes and rests the blame to whoever he wishes to carry it.

You can't be trying to make a film that pleases all people, you know, so it's not a concern of mine.

The wife was pretty, trifling, childish, weak; She could not think, but would not cease to speak.

I choose L'Arche; L'Arche chooses me. I would be dead if I weren't here. I need people to love me and care for me.

There's me in every character I put on the pages.

Metallica's the only band I've ever been in and it's the only band I ever wanna be in.

There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.

High School Musical has been a blessing and a gift.