I'll be like Bob Hope, touring when I'm 100.

I'll oil wells love you. I'll oil wells care. I'll oil wells need you. I want you oil wells dear.

I think [music and acting], they are connected, all that stuff. It's your emotional self, is pretty much how you do it, I think, from whatever place you do it, whether you're acting or you're singing.

I've copyrighted 3,000 songs.

You have to work hard, in order to get anything done.

My first job was singing on the Cas Walker radio show in Knoxville, Tennessee. I was about 10 years old and I thought it was big time.

All my momma's people were very musical. My grandpa, who was the Pentecostal minister, he was a great musician. He played the fiddle, he played the piano.