I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

Music is not just my passion it's my companion.

You can walk out on me tonight, if you think that it ain't feeling right, but darling, there's no getting over me.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

Curiosity is the lust of the mind.

Ludlow put a hand on his arm. "A friend of mine used to say, 'You cannot change the past, but every moment is an opportunity to change your future.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

My first computers were a Timex Sinclair and an Apple II.

Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.

The creative process is a living thing, implanted, as it were in the souls of men.

I think it's healthy to be insecure, to have nerves.

Put a very clever man next to a genius, his brightness will immediately turn to dullness!

If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.

The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.