I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.

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 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.

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.

Free time is death to the anxious, and thank goodness I don't have any of it right now.

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

When you know how, it's a pleasure to burn

I'm just a lucky slob from Ohio who happened to be in the right place at the right time.

The world will persist in exhibiting before you what you persist in affirming the world is.

My aim is to make the viewer become aware of his or her responsibility in what he or she is looking at.

The best moment of love is when the lover leaves in the taxi.

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

We don't get paid for being busy, we get paid for being right.