I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

There is no fact or fiction, only imagined truths.

I was just so lucky with 'Real Women Have Curves.' At that point, I would have done an insurance commercial. I would have done anything.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

You [future first ladies] will feel that you are no longer clothing yourself, you are dressing a public monument.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

I am a prosecutor in my bones. When I see something, I immediately go to: how is this going to affect a child?

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.

Everyone hates clowns," Otis said. "Even other clowns hate clowns.

I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.