Well, I didn't really have a plan. I just wanted a hit.

I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.

If I needed to record, I'd head to the coast or Nashville, one or the other.

I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.

Getting comments like that from even the young people at the shows who probably aren't singers, the girls who just tell me that I'm an inspiration to them, for one reason or another.

You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.

And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.

So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.

None of the other guys in the band really sang, so that's when I brought Roy Clark in.

I never kissed a bear, I've never kissed a goon, but I can shake a chicken in the middle of a room.

I'm still learnin'. I pick up something from every performer I watch.

The more we rehearse the worse we become.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Your enemies are always manufactured to suit your purpose, right? How can you have a good enemy? You have to have an utterly evil enemy - and then the evilness has to progress.

If you stepped out of the shower and saw a leprechaun standing at the base of your toilet, would you scream, or would you innately understand that he meant you no harm?

You will not grow without attempting to do things you are unable to do.

It's not that we should declare the praises of God. It's that we may.

If you begin to face your fears, something bittersweet is going to happen to you: You'll grow up.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.