Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

You can't cheat the public for long.

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

What do you call love, then?" Someone I can't live without.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Man is more ape than many of the apes.

I just never want to completely grow up.

We need to cultivate hearts that are ready to change, ready to be mounded and shaped by the loving hands of God as we offer ourselves wholeheartedly in worship.

I consider each of my dollars to be investment "soldiers," and their mission is "freedom."

I don’t want to become as good as I once was. I want to become better.