I honestly love [my fans] so much. [Their] support is everything and I'm glad [they] liked [my confession].
I can't miss a night's work and let my public down.
I've become a captive of my own ambitions.
The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.
Mother would come and pick me up at work and take me wherever I could get a job. Mother didn't trust anybody with me. Usually we'd get home at 3 in the morning.
I don't want to get rich - just live good.
I got to be constantly reassured that somebody loves me.
Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.
There are three ways to spoil a public man: women, gambling, and listening to experts. The first is the pleasantest, the second is the fastest, but the third is the most certain.
He shall despise none, but hear the opinions of all. A wise man shall make use of even a child's sensible utterance.
Socialism to me is establishing social control of power in society, and where that differs from liberalism for example which aims at a similar situation in some respects, is we think you can only establish control over power by changing the structure and distribution of power, notably economic power.