Oh no, I’m not a historian or anything like that.

So I became a producer because I knew one of the reasons was they didn’t do them the way I thought was right.

If it was Europe, I just picked a country that I hadn’t been to, but I didn’t try to check up on what was going on in the country or anything like that. I just went and had a good time and met a lot of very nice people who are still my friends.

The thing I hated about it was that you live in your trailer all the time and then they call you and you do maybe two dozen lines. Then they do that for three hours and you wait and wait and wait, and I don’t like waiting.

There’s nothing worse, I guess, than being black in an all-white church or being southern and being a liberal.

People think I’m crazy because I travel too much, but I haven’t been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I’ve tried to take care of it.

I'm not a very good actor, I don't think.

Well, you'll find the most boring part of it is the waiting, at least if it's in films anyway. Television's a lot faster, but the product... I don't think it's as good as a film.

People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.

Nobody heard records of you playing whatever the melody was on those low strings. It worked out good, you know, about 25 or 26 million records later. I guess it worked out alright.