Richard Petty

All the boys did real good for their first time out. You couldn’t ask for any better. We’ve got a few bugs to work out, but that’s what this was for. We’re going to keep practicing and get better.

If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’!

Two Sundays don’t make a season. But if we keep it together, we are going to win a whole bunch of races this year.

I’d rather be called King than other things I’ve been called.

I don’t particularly tell my guys to cheat. I just tell them not to get caught.

The good Lord doesn’t tell you what His plan is, so all you can do is get up in the morning and see what happens next.

I wish everybody would treat themselves like a plant.

For me an album cover is like a movie poster. I wanted an image that was pure femininity, which could please a sculptor. I went through a lot of suffering. But managing to stand up nude on stage carrying a guitar is a victory.

All I can say is that it’s amazing what you can accomplish when you’re young and foolish.

If you have paparazzi, you know you’ve gotten somewhere.

The whole idea of music, from the beginning of time, was for people to be happy.

You can tell an honest artist from one who’s just given all their songs.

But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I’m a husband and a father.

I believe I could do dance on ice, or play in a musical of Freud’s life called ‘It’s Your Mother’ – or maybe one for the symbolists: ‘Jung at Heart’. There’s always the one about India: ‘The Gandhi Man Can’.

I’m quite sarcastic, and I’m funny, but not kind of funny. It’s a weird funny, and some people don’t get me, and some people do.

While making Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde, I had like 50 outfit changes. It was great! I’m real into the whole “girlie” thing, it was a lot of fun. I really enjoyed it.

If you’re an actor and you don’t get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities.

I’ve deliberately tried to calm myself down because eventually I want to be a good role model to my kids.

I think the way for me to win America’s heart is to perform, and if I really was concerned about breaking big then there’d be a tour.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? I’m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I’m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I’d like to cut your chest open. The crowd cheers.

My husband said it was him or the cat. I miss him sometimes.