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

[My mother] made the money to send me.

Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.

I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?

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.

I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since.

Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved.