I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.

I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.

I went around the corner to motion pictures.

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

It is not a character fault or weakness or seeking attention. It is somebody who is ill.

She's wearing a ring that I bought on sale, and that makes her the property of this U.S. Male.

I am very grateful to God everyday that my eyes flutter open and I can jump out of that bed!