Although it wasn't that easy to do, it was wonderful working with John Wayne.

When you shift the gear and that little needle on the tach goes into the red and reads 9,000 rpm, that's bad.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

The idea is that one's temperament improves with age; that you learn to deal better with people and become more benevolent and loving. That's not necessarily true. I try to stay loose but sometimes the best thing to do is get yourself away and take a good nap.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

I love going to black churches, and I love some of these black preachers. The best preacher I ever saw in my life was a 93-year-old in a black church in Hamilton, Virginia. What a preacher!

Never use money to measure wealth, son.