The right combination of guilt and machismo has sent many a fool out into the jungle when he should have stayed home.

It's my job to be better than the rest, and that's enough reason to go for me. It's my job to be better than the rest, and that makes the day for me.

You get religion as your hair turns grey.

If it doesn't work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

We got to roll with the punches, play all of our hunches, make the best of whatever comes your way. Forget that blind ambition, learn to trust your intuition - plowing straight ahead, come what may.

It's been wonderful for me, and I feel so privileged to have fans that are that loyal.