I'm not used to introspection. I've never lingered on my feelings. The show must go on.

Brother, if you want to get the lowdown, Come along and let's all have a hoedown.

John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.

I still sing because I love the sound of applause, because it's who I am, and because I still can.

The amazing thing is that I'm sane. I'm not bitter. I'm not drugged out. I'm not broke. I'm still married to the same guy. My children don't hate me.

I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.

I've spent an awful lot of my time in the air. I've had everything happen to me in a plane that could happen. Except a crash.

I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

I gave up my childhood for a career.

I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

The music business can be very cold. And it doesn't honor its elders.

If you're preaching, I've already got religion. And if you're selling, I ain't buying--unless you've got binoculars. I could use some new binoculars.

It is hard to explain just how a single sight of a tangible object with measurable dimensions could so shake and change a man

There are bad examples which are worse than crimes; and more states have perished from the violation of morality than from the violation of law.

I've always been pretty patient so I usually don't mind waiting!

It is well for us to pause, to acknowledge our debt to those who paid so large a share of freedom's price.

Your point of view sets you up well in advance for how you view the events as they unfold.

No one could be the way I remember my father.

If you're in despair, you don't know how to be part of your own life anymore.

I know people within the Hare Krishna community look at pop music as secular, different, and something separate from spiritual music but for me, there's no difference.

The wrecks of slavery are fast growing a fungus crop of sentiment.