This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand.

Sam Phillips always encouraged me to do it my way, to use whatever other influences I wanted, but never to copy...if there hadn't been a Sam Phillips, I might still be working in a cotton field.

I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart.

My arms are too short to box with God.

If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself

When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry.