I never knew any Jews until I got into show business. I've found them to be real smart and good workers.

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.

All music is based on country music. And that's why so many different kinds of people relate to it. There are more country music fans in New Jersey than there are down South.

I was married when I wasn't quite 14 and had four babies by the time I was 18.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

There's always been a man telling me what to do.

I never rode in an automobile until I was 12.