I used to be with a publishing house called Roosevelt Music. A gentleman there told me he had seen Peggy Lee perform Fever in Las Vegas and I found out later she wanted to record it.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

I like this town, it's really great. They've put me in The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame. This town is about music. It's about the kind of music I like.

When I was young, I just sat down and started playing Chopsticks at the piano. I got so far and then lost interest. Eventually, I regained it and started writing songs.

I'd hate to be a songwriter starting a career today.

When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.

Nothing says "deeply in mourning" like canapés and free beer.

Hope is holding on, praying expectantly. It's never giving up. It's never quitting.

I hope I'm saving lives. There are very few people in their careers that have the opportunity to do something to benefit mankind.

Acting is my calling, not my career.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

It's always nerve-wracking when you're hosting "Saturday Night Live." You either sink or swim.

If you can afford...a computer, you can afford to pay $16 for my...CD.

Yet, for my part, I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?