I keep my eyes wide open all the time.

There is a spiritual side to me that goes real deep, but I confess right up front that I'm the biggest sinner of them all.

I've never been accused of a felony. I never spent time behind bars except for a few overnight jail times back in the Sixties. [But] I think there's a little bit of a criminal in all of us. Everybody's done something they don't want anybody to know about.

Life is rough so you gotta be tough.

I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I'm 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.

When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood.

My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables.