Help me, Jesus. I know what I am.

I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.

[My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived.

Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.

My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson.

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed.

Convicts are the best audience I ever played for.