I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

To persist with a goal, you must treasure the dream more than the costs of sacrifice to attain it.

As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things.

I usually don't work with other people; I do the whole show myself.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

Regular women carry pictures of their babies, their husbands, their summer houses. Fat ladies carry pictures of themselves at their skinniest.

Some say the word 'pop' is a derogatory word to say 'not important' - I do not accept that. If the word 'classic' is the word to say 'boring,' I do not accept. There is good and bad music.

Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.

Yeah, I treat all my heroines like children now. I pick them up, I cuddle them, I call them baby.

I'm sick of the tabloids' saying I obsess over guys. Why would you obsess over guys? They don't like it.