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

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'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.

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

We encounter great souls, who lived in historical times, in ancient books.

Too much knowledge and analysis can be paralysis.

It is better to begin in the evening than not at all.

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

Morality, as has often been pointed out, is antecedent to religion-it even exists in a rudimentary form among animals.

I'm nearly 50. I'm past being photographed falling out of bars.

I love myself...I love you. I love you...I love myself.

If e-mail had been around before the telephone was invented, people would have said, 'Hey, forget e-mail! With this new telephone invention I can actually talk to people!'.