You can keep rummaging around until you find a song you like, but you can't predict whether it'll hit or not..

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt..

If you see me coming, better step aside. A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died..

You can't cheat the public for long..

When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself ….

I tell you, I was as nervous as a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rockers!.

Sixteen Tons was written eight years before I recorded it..

Shot Gun Boogie, I wanted wedding bells. I'll be back little gal, when your pappy runs out of shells..

Do you want to be successful? Nurture your talent..

I snapped my fingers all through it. Sometimes I set my own tempo during rehearsal by doing that..

Know yourself -- and know your audience..