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

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

When you retire, it's a place in life, a part of the journey. You just don't quit work; you develop an attitude where you can do what you please

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.