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

You can't cheat the public for long.

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that.

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells.

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

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.