I used to watch people like Richard Burton and Mel Gibson and think, 'I could never do that.'

When I was a kid of six or seven, I used to get up on the stove woodpile for a stage and I’d put on the wildest show.

I mean, it’s pretty hard to fight and hate and be angry when you’re making music, isn’t it?

Music is the most powerful thing on this earth, and it’s hard to be angry when you are listening to music.

You can have music and it will stand alone by itself, but you can’t have a movie without it.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you’re gonna need it.

When you’re hot your hot, when you’re not your not.

You will have fewer people, but our hotel only has 20 rooms; we were booked weeks in advance. You have to spread it out for economic reasons and to support and build the community. As it is, we have a lot of wasted effort and dollars that can't be spent because the capacity isn't there.

I'd sit on the trunk in the kitchen - I'd get up there 'cause I wanted to be on stage, you know. I always wanted to be an entertainer.

She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.