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

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.

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.

But, we didn't have all the media that we do today.

A little knee time first thing in the day keeps you standing all day!

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

I don't know what drives me to succeed. I know I want to always do the best I can. I never was like that as a kid.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain. [Ger., Den Bosen sind sie los, die Bosen sind geblieben.]

If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

The wages of sin is debugging.