When my parents first arrived there, North Dakota had just been admitted to the Union, and the country was still wild and harsh.

I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable - this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

The ones the listeners loved most of all in those early years were the four Lennon girls who became the whole nation's little sisters.

We really were a very musical family. In spite of the fact that we were so poor when I was a youngster that supper was often just a bowl of bread and milk, Father somehow managed to squeeze out enough pennies to buy us a small pump organ, and I just loved this instrument too.

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

You know, it's a long world.