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

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

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

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.

Stand up for your conscience. Use light to reveal what is concealed in the darkness. Use truth to fight the lies, and the heart to fight the mind.

I remember a time when all my fans were crying and sad and going through hell. Now, we're trying to uplift each other and accept ourselves for who we are, even if nobody else does.

Religion is always falling apart.

No matter what is going on, everything is grace.

I could see my face, crying, in her blank eye.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you’ve got to get out and see God’s beauty of the world.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

Throwing out the first pitch at the Cubs game and having 40,000 people give me a standing ovation was probably one of the highlights of my life. You could see what a great sports town Chicago is.

Darling, do you remember the man you married? Touch me, remind me who I am.

I love animated films when they are good, because they do bring a lot of emotion and heart that's very difficult to get in a live action film.