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.

My arms are too short to box with God.

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

All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate…I choose love.

Get rhythm when you get the blues.

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.

For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide.