Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

You've got to capture an audience. You don't go out there and just sing, or just play. If you can't capture an audience, you might as well not be out there.

My health is good; it's my age that's bad.

Any game you play, you got to lose sometime.

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Television made a lot of difference in country music. It's progress. I believe in progress.

I've done a whole lot of things. I've had the pleasure of introducing two presidents, several senators and congressmen.

My health is good it's my age that's bad.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.

Relinquish your ideology of control, for it is merely a mirage anyway.

I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got.

If it's all wrong, it's all right.

You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.

If I bring anything to the table, it's the fact that not everybody realizes they're funny. So I just point a finger.

Auditions are like a gamble. Most likely you won't get the part, but if you don't go, you'll never know if you could've got it.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.