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.

You really get the most out of sweet corn if you pick the corn off the stalk and rush it to a pot of boiling water. The longer you wait, the more sugar you lose. But if you get it in the first half hour, that is the sweetest corn ever.

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

As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.

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.

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

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.