When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not.

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent.

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.