Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

Climb upon the hates, and build upon the loves.

I don't trust anyone... It's something that I have to live with, and I have to find the balance of who I want in my life and who isn't good for me.

One of my favorite things from my mom is a chocolate brown three-piece Chanel outfit. I had it tailored because she taught me the importance of fit.

The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride.

There are times when I get through the day by looking around the office and thinking, 'My God, aren't the natives here strange.'

Standing in public in other people's clothes, pretending to be someone else. It's a strange way for a grown man to make a living.

I was a Republican until I got to New York and had to live on $18 a week. It was then that I became a Democrat.

My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me.

Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.

As with any true artist, change is the only constant.