It ain't what you eat but how you chew it.

Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.

Everybody should be lucky enough to live as long as I have and be happy.

I love performing ! It's true that you're only as good as your last show. You have to keep testing yourself and keep that lump in your throat before you go on.

I have two sons, ages 38 and 25 in Texas, and my wife and seven year old daughter here in Nashville. On New Year's I'd rather be with them.

The hardest part about walking away from someone is the part where you realize that, no matter how slowly you go, they will never run after you.

Being interested is more important than being interesting.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in Gods revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.

The official version of Watergate is as wrong as a Flat Earth Society pamphlet.

You can't explain success in retrospect. The moment you leap into the void, that moment is impossible to negate, after success.

Life is just a little opportunity for you during a few years to say, "I love you, too."

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

Take a straw and throw it up into the air, you may see by that which way the wind is.

I've always paid a lot of attention to the way that different kinds of media affect how we see the world, probably because I've been an actor since I was a little kid.