I had some airline stock, but the airlines tanked. I didn't have a lot of money in them, though.

I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but I do know how to count.

If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.

If you're not on a major label today, you're not gonna get played. They've got the market sewed up.

If I cut an album now and sell it for ten bucks, I can put seven dollars and fifty cents in my pocket.

I've grown up with my audience; they're my age or older. Not a lot of kids are coming to see me.

All I want to do is do my shows and play golf.

All my money was made doing the dates and selling products when I was out there on the road.

Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

When a record co. finds a guy now, they want to own everything. They want to own the rights to market that person's particular name. They want a piece of the action all the way through.

So I'm trying to spread myself to the point to where I can do the night shows and not have to worry about the matinees, and do one or two matinees down through the year.

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth

You can’t afford to leave your happiness to others. Create what you wish to experience.

I am so mad at the press I could just strangle them!

Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.

That [Exodus] occurred, I have no doubt.

Why become enlightened? Why join the military? Why get married? Why cross the ocean? It is a personal choice. There is something in a person that draws them to the light.

I find it quite difficult to analyze my own motives for things. I tend to go with a gut feeling in the moment.

We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal.

We are in danger of being stern where God is tender, and of being tender where God is stern.

What I've learned to do is arrest my addiction - arrest it myself, so I don't get arrested.