You can knock me down, step on my face, slander my name all over the place. Do anything that you want to do, but uh-oh, honey, lay off of my shoes.

If it weren't for the rocks in its bed, the stream would have no song.

That rockabilly sound wasn't as simple as I thought it was.

Fill your heart with as much love as you can, and don't hold it in.

After all those days in the cotton fields, the dreams came true on a gold record on a piece of wood. It's in my den where I can look at it every day. I wear it out lookin' at it.

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.

Never give up on your existence.

What is a life lived without passion? he asked himself. And what is passion, but a yearning of the soul for recognition and self-expression? The beauty within seeks beauty without.

You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going.

I'm not particularly impressed with going 50 miles per gallon. That doesn't impress me when we can go to the moon.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.

The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.