Oh no, I'm not a historian or anything like that.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

There's nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn't do them the way I thought was right.

So anyway, I really enjoyed the European audiences.

I just did one movie and there was no career for me, anyway.

She silently thanked God for creating such a beautiful universe where anything was possible even when it seemed impossible.

You may delay your ambition, but never forget your ambition.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

In the Arctic I met some Russian sailors on a submarine and they chorused, "Gordon's alive!"

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of the meditation knowing things ... things that are inexpressible.

You realize we're all going to go to college as virgins. They probably have special dorms for people like us.

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

A question I get asked a lot is 'What is it like to play the straight guy all the time?' And I'm totally okay with it.

I love to invent - avoiding the truth. I need to dramatize.