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 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!

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

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.

See me once with loveMake me alive.

We know who the homicidal maniacs are. They are the ones cheering and dancing right now.

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

I've always been heavily engaged with my fans on the internet from day one. That connection's one of the reasons why I've been able to enjoy such longevity in my career.

It would take less than a second for you to die. But that's quite long enough to be in mortal agony, don't you think?

Do what you want to do, and don't worry if it's a little odd or doesn't fit the market.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

I'm a huge, huge sports fan. A massive sports fan.

I think I lead a really real life.

Friendship is cemented by interest, vanity, or the want of amusement; it seldom implies esteem, or even mutual regard.