You can't cheat the public for long.

Know yourself -- and know your audience.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it.

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

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.

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

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