I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

If I had a choice, and there was a "Y" in the road, I would always take the one that was more fun as opposed to the one that might make me more money.

There's two kind of cherries, and two kind of fairies, and two kind of mothers I'm told.

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

Evolution is a laughing matter for anybody that's got a rational mind.

Before the Beatles and yesterday, when a man could still work and still would.

I can't really say why everyone loves Bob Wills' music, but I have yet to meet a person who didn't like it.