It seems like the good things that have happened in my career are things that you don't try to plan and push, and make it happen, it just seems to happen.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

To be or not to be that is the question.

It was high school. Evil is kind of the name of the game.

I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.

The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.

Life is laughter amid a rosary of death.

Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get; it's something you give

I wanted to be a Teacher with a big T, teach the whole planet. It led me into writing and speaking to large groups.

I can't wait for the iPhone 6. It's my only ambition in life to have it quickly.

Up from the bronze, I saw Water without a flaw Rush to its rest in air Reach to its rest, and fall.

Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.