I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

We're afraid to live, because we're afraid of dying.

Believe it or not, I was just given an honorary doctorate degree from the University of Tennessee.

God knows when the end of time will come, not some fanatic... The world will end someday, but the end of the world and the end of time are two different things.

I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

I've done everything every fat person ever has. I've tried every diet.

I listen to my old records and I think, 'How did I ever get on the radio?'