I was nuts about Elvis, like every girl in America.

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'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.

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.

I am a man, not a movement, ” he said. “But if a movement is what it takes to end this war, then I will play my part.

Perfection all the time would drive them mad. For every perfect little town, there's something ugly underneath. No dream without the nightmare.

For 60 years, my country, the United States, pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region, here in the Middle East, and we achieved neither.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon

I'm past carrying out some of the wishes that I would have wanted to do before, but I still dream about what I would like to do if I was able to do so.

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

One of the hardest things a person who is new to the way of business thinking has to go through is the countless number of people who will say to you: "You can't do that.

Oh, doughty sons of Hungary! May all success Attend and bless Your warlike ironmongery!

Mirth cannot move a soul in agony.