I'd rather go on hearing your lies, than to go on living without you.

Whatever it is, go back and do it again.

The colored folks been singing it and playing it just like I'm doin' now, man, for more years than I know. I got it from them.

A little less fight and a little more spark, close your mouth and open your heart.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.