They say love will find a way. I know determination will.

Work for the fun of it, and the money will arrive some day.

This business is always changing. If you're going to be a leader, you've got to take chances.

Now is now, and I live everything one day at a time. The fact that I'm still on the planet and able to still make music is such a miracle.

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

Music is not just my passion it's my companion.

You can walk out on me tonight, if you think that it ain't feeling right, but darling, there's no getting over me.

I feel this is a family here, so kinda regardless of whatever happens in your life, you always can come home to the Grand Ole Opry, thank God.

I learned when I started to study piano that I could play by ear. I could hear a song on the radio a couple of times and hear the song and the lyrics and sing it for you after a couple of plays.

The last time I saw Elvis was when I played my second New Years Eve show for him in 1970.

I had 12 years of classical music as a child, playing piano competitions as a teenager, playing in blues bands and rock 'n' roll bands, country and jazz bands. I played in about any situation.

Acceptance brings calmness with it.

Trust no one, and let none believe.

My mom handed me my first romance novel.

What can you do if they have slapped you with a legal notice? You have to reply. For all you know, they have taken you to jail or something.

The most beautiful moments always seemed to accelerate and slip beyond one's grasp just when you want to hold onto them for as long as possible.

It was lucky that the linesman wasn't stood in front of me as I would have poked him with a stick to make sure he was awake.

Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

The numinous depth of the mystery that seems to have called us out of the animal mind is completely impenetrable to modern analysis.