Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

You can't cheat the public for long.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

As I believe—I am, I can, I know.

What engenders hatred towards the Sharia? When people find their basic needs are not being met, then people just see it as unfair.

Everywhere I travel throughout Eastern Washington, I hear from people demanding we do a better job of controlling our borders and reducing illegal immigration.

I like you very much. Just as you are.

We've focused a lot on visible evidence. We believe that a community needs to make the visible statement about who the community is.

I love to ask people questions. I want to know everything about them, even things that may be seemingly socially inappropriate.

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.