I'd rather work with someone who's good at their job but doesn't like me, than someone who likes me but is a ninny.

Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

If you have a setback, and you're not doing well and then you overcome it somehow, it always sticks with you. You know it could happen again.

It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.

It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.

I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.