Once you've gotten used to performing, you can't give it up.

Since religion was so much a part of my life as a child, and since my childhood was so happy and so full of laughter and joy, I associate the two. Even my concept of Jesus goes along with this association of happiness and religion.

Marriage is like a hot bath; once you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Roy Acuff was the first country music star to buy a home in a fashionable section of Nashville. The real estate man said, 'Mr. Acuff, how do you plan to take care of this?' since the house was very expensive at the time. Roy said, 'Would cash be all right?'

The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up.

Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.

Take the back roads instead of the highways.