I don't remember not singing. I started when I was, I don't know how - what, two years old, or a year old or something like that.

There's been a load of compromising, on the road to my horizon, but I'm gonna be where the lights are shining on me.

There ought to be a hall of fame for mamas / Creation's most unique and precious pearl / And heaven help us always to remember / That the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world

I am a lineman for the county.

I like to start the day early, it keeps me out of trouble.

I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.

I guess I'm like Roger Miller who used to say that he didn't have as many jokes as he thought he did.

I miss him already. He was a unique person and a dear friend. If a record came on the radio, you'd know it was Waylon Jennings.

Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending.

Never under-estimate your effort, no matter how little. Every effort, little or great is a step closer towards the actualisation of your dreams.

The critics only made me work harder.

I have learned more [from Balzac] than from all the professional historians, economists, and statisticians put together.

We came up with the name and logo pretty much the same way we do everything else.

A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

A recent poll shows that a majority of blacks, whites, Asians and Hispanics do not think the Census should be classifying people as black, white, Asian and Hispanic.