"I learned my first songs when I was six and seven, and when I was eight years old, I won a local tal..." — Roy Orbison

You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right, you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might.

To be a songwriter-singer means the songs come from deep within, and you treat them as an artist, with that much respect. I couldn't hardly cheat myself.

Barbara and I wanted to do a television special, and she put it together with T Bone Burnett, and they came up with the idea of it being black and white. It was fabulous; we had a great time. It was wonderful.

I got a woman that's mean as she can be, sometimes I think she's almost as mean as me.