There is a trade off – as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.
I think it’s fun to play for people who don’t know what you do.
I have awards right now that I do not remember walking on stage to get.
People will clap to be nice. They will not laugh to be nice.
The first six years of my career, I got more comments on my weight than on my singing. So I think I became so self-conscious that I started working on it harder.
I’m much more comfortable singing than talking.
The Hall of Fame is forever, baby!
You know, when you’re poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don’t know that everybody’s not poor.
Well, I don’t think everything necessarily that I touch turns to gold, but I think I get great joy out of it regardless of whether it is successful or not.
Radio is aimed at the 30-year-old market, so you have to have great music and appeal to get that age group. And you need a record company to believe in you. It’s like a bit of the perfect storm.
I feel like I learn something from everything I do.
You picked a fine time to leave me Lucille, with four hungry children and a crop in the field.
Sometimes you’ve got to fight when your a man.
It won’t mean you’re weak if you turn the other cheek.
There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something.
You know, I think the greatest gift in the world is a good employee, you know, or people who can do your work for you and do it well the way you’d like to have it done. And I’ve always been able to surround myself with really good people.
If I could undo what’s been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.
Stay away from trouble when you can.
I still like going on the road and performing, but it’s getting tougher. I try to have my wife and the twins with me but it’s getting harder and harder for them. They need to be in a home environment and not traveling with me.
There’ll be time enough for counting when the dealing’s done.
Every hand’s a winner, and every hand’s a loser, and the best that you can hope for is to die in your sleep.