Whatever I do, I hope it's quality, I hope it's something that's class.

Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith.

My biggest problem with the retirement thing was I'd be leaving the part of this business that I enjoy the most... the entertaining part, being on stage and seeing how the music affects people.

Papa loved Mama, Mama loved men, Mama's in the graveyard, Papa's in the pen.

It ain't what you're driving or the clothes that you wear, material possessions won't matter up there. And someday in heaven, when the angels all sing, well these rags that I'm wearin' will be fit for a king.

When you sit on something trying to preserve it, you die and become sterile.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.