So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

Once-upon-a-time we buried the memories we didn't want.

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

Patience is only possible within the time we are able to be patient.

Sometimes you ask God for something and you don't know what you're asking.

Why wait any longer for the one you love When he’s standing in front of you

They all laughed at Christopher Columbus When he said the world was round.

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

I think money is pretty straightforward. Get some money in; pay off what you owe, the rest is yours.

It's good to say, 'Look, I can't always be right, but my gut tells me this' - and then you confirm with your gut.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.