One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity.
A lot of people say I'd miss show business if I quit. I'd miss some of it. Now it's the only life I know.
Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.
There's never going to be another Patsy Cline. Without her, I don't think I would have lasted.
I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
I'd love to work more with the American Indians, my people.
Our minds, like the needle in that compass, can focus on a variety of subjects throughout the day. But in the end, when they're left alone to settle, they'll focus on the objects of our greatest affection.
It's not life or death it's a game and at the end of the game there is going to be a winner and a loser.
On the stage, you alone hold the key, and on the night you have to trust that the director has inspired you enough to take the material and run with it.
. . . the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.