I don't do any vulgar movements.

When I first saw you with your smile so tender, my heart was captured, my soul surrendered.

I'll be a fool or a wiseman, my darling, you hold the key. Anyway you want me, that's how I will be.

When things go wrong, don't go with them.

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

I'm not kidding myself. My voice alone is just an ordinary voice. What people come to see is how I use it. If I stand still while I'm singing, I'm dead, man. I might as well go back to driving a truck.

Man, that record came out and was real big in Memphis. They started playing it, and it got real big. Don't know why-the lyrics had no meaning.