Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it's hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

I got my first guitar at age of 7 and never laid it down. Momma taught me G, C, and D. I was off to the races son!

Smokey and The Bandit was just a lark. All we did was run up and down those Georgia roads wrecking cars and having the time of our life.

I put on your sequined ball gown and I checked the mirror there. Why, I looked like Cindy Crawford, but with much more body hair.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!

I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.

Great wits jump

The fundamental belief in the authenticity of photographs explains why photographs of people no longer living and of vanished architecture are so melancholy.

Those who will not face improvements because they are changes, will face changes that are not improvements.

If one imitates the upright, one becomes upright. If one imitates the crooked, one becomes crooked.

But eradicating corruption is not enough to sustain a country.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

I'm going to take you out of here ... I'm going to take you home, to the world where you belong, where cats with bent tails live, and there are little backyards, and alarm clocks ring in the morning.

I like when a guy wears a T-shirt, and you can see a little curve of the muscle sticking out. That's sexy!

I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.