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.

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

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.

Talk to me in poetry. / It is all I understand.

It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.

As long as men are free to ask what they must, free to say what they think, free to think what they will, freedom can never be lost and science can never regress.

I go out to the kitchen to feed the dog, but that's about as much cooking as I do.

I thought I might have to give up art, but I couldn't think of anything else to do.

This society is not only to relieve the poor, but to save souls.

There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking at the bright side of things.

One of the biggest and most common mistakes a woman makes is to substitute activity for God for a relationship with Him.

Nullum ad nocendum tempus angustum est malis. No time is too short for the wicked to injure their neighbors.

I don't believe there's more than one human man or woman in a thousand who can think internationally, and until the majority can I don't see any hope of lasting peace.