Richard Petty

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.

Cotton Owens was leading and daddy was second. They came up on me and I moved over to let them pass. Cotton went on, but daddy bumped me in the rear and my car went right into the wall.

He was going to make it. He had a passion for driving a car … Adam was never interested in anything else.

Denver’s pretty quick. They couldn’t keep up with him in the open field.

I don’t now what situation they came from and I don’t know what they were offered to go somewhere else. It’s the times now, There’s not a any loyalty for anyone or anything – a whole lot. Wherever the money’s at, that’s where they’re going, so I don’t blame them. They’ve got just a few years to get it done and if they don’t get it done then, then they aren’t going to get it done.

If guys don’t respect themselves, they don’t respect other people. That’s times and personalities. And all of them are not that way. But it don’t take but one or two to screw up the whole crowd.

I love Obama. I’m sure we’ll hang out, go to Richard Branson’s island. It’ll be cool.

We had to do this scene looking like heroes diving into the lake. they had a stand-in doing perfect dives on the first take. Then Stan, Clemence, And I tried, but none of us could dive in right, and we all looked really stupid.

You can’t give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside – so be it. But at least you know you’ve tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

In the morning, I can not be without looking at my phone to see the IM’s or any missed calls that I missed and Food!

I have so much to talk about. I have so much to share. There are so many different emotions going on inside of me right now.

I’m a sucker for those sweeping love stories. When I read the script (The Notebook), I couldn’t stop crying! I just had such a powerful, instantaneous reaction – it was written so well.

The only thing that I’m scared of is not livin’ up to the expectations of Dr. Dre and Eminem.

I knew I had to make a sacrifice to do what I’ve always wanted to do.

Ask a boxer: In the third round, when he hit you from the side on your ear, how did that specifically feel? You wouldn’t ask a boxer that. Because you know they’re there to fight. Meaning now you know I’m here to fight. I’m here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is.

All I could think about was, ‘I just wanna blow him away. I wanna make him proud, because I really wanna sign with Timbaland and spend the rest of my career making music with Tim.’

There are positive things that come of social media as well as negative.

Ladies gotta say no to their husbands at the movies. They gotta say: ‘No, we are watching back-to-back cancer movies. And then this movie about a cat.’

There are things that I do that feminists don’t like, and there are things that I do that they do like. I don’t label myself.

I feel like I needed a balance. I don’t want to forget about my personal life and spending time with myself.

I moved to New York last year and I love it. It’s a huge change and I’ve always wanted to spend time there. It’s like a more intense London, and everything’s up a few notches. The lights are brighter, the pace is faster and the food’s better.