Them that's got shall get, Them that's not shall lose. So the Bible says, And it still is news. Mama may have, Papa may have, But God bless the child that's got his own.

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years.

Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.

In this country kings or dukes don't amount to nothing. The greatest man around then was Franklin D. Roosevelt, and he was the President; so I started calling Lester the President. It got shortened to Pres.

The difficult I'll do right now. The impossible will take a little while.

I don't think I'm singing. I feel like I'm playing a horn...What comes out is what I feel.

Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three.