It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

I loved Mississippi and do to this day. The rainbows that stretch from horizon to horizon after a summer rain are the most spectacular I have ever seen.

A fan will grab you and hug you and will not let go. When that happens, you wish it could be that way all over the world.

Even now, when I'm asked how I'm doing, I like to reply, 'Pretty good. I've got all my fingers and both eyes.

There are worse things than being thought a Republican.

I don't care what the religion is called; as far as I'm concerned, one God, the God I adhere to, is in charge of all of them.

Flying was as necessary to my business as fiddles and footlights.