Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.

Somehow, the things my mother wanted to do, the release in evangelism she sought with such frenzy, were transferred to me.

We never had a bathtub. Mom would bathe me in the wooden or tin washtub in the kitchen, or in a big lard can.

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me.

You are a person of the greatest importance when you are a mother of a family. Just do your job right and your kids will love you.

I wanted to be with the kind of people I'd grown up with, but you can't go back to them and be one of them again, no matter how hard you try.