When I go into the studio, I'm strictly for business... I don't like any fooling around in the studio.

As I was growing up, I did a lot of talent shows. I won fifteen Sunday nights straight in a series of talent shows in Macon. I showed up the sixteenth night, and they wouldn't let me go on any more. Whatever success I had was through the help of the good Lord.

R-E-S-P-E-C-T, take out the TCP.

This loneliness won't leave me alone.

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.

I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.

Sitting in the morning sun, I'll be sitting when the evening comes