I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day.

I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight.

My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.

He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.

Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way.

I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine.