Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.

I never hid out. I was never big enough a star.

After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.

I am a fan of history.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.