Oh, I offended you with my opinion? You should hear the the ones I keep to myself.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

It seems that every time I stick my neck out, I get my foot into something else.

If you can't do it with feeling - don't.

Oh, I just sing like I hurt inside.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.

Jesus has been in my room. He has taken my hand and told me, No, Not now. I have other things for you to do.

I got me a hit record and I ain't never made a cent from it.

And in that vastness, it felt like every memory existed only to disappear one day.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

In so far as he is a creator, the artist does not belong to a social group already moulded by a culture, but to a culture which he is by way of building up.

We all worry about the population explosion, but we don't worry about it at the right time.

You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.

Patience is fine, but I'm not going to stop asking the Universe to make sense!

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

Well," he sighed to no one in particular, and looked up into yet another alien sky. "Here we are again.

The only suggestions I get on my plays is to make them more of what they already are, and that's wonderful.

Every year I'm doing different projects, concerts, touring, open-air festivals.