I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

People Ignore, People Hurt, People Confuse. But, Nature Talks, Nature Heals, Nature Answers.

Whatever happens to us is beneficial.

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.

You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed by the long shadow that is cast by my accomplishments.

The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.

I always had a good time in theatre, even when shows don't turn out as well as I'd like.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

I'm an artist. And I'm happy that I was there at the commencement of this music, this Jamaican music, to put my contribution and help to establish it.

We must do more and with more urgency to empower women.

What we shouldn't do is victimize and target Muslim communities specifically. But as things stand, there's one tribunal which has drawn a lot of flack - the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal.