I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite.

Baby booty, juicy fruity, truck stop cutie, road side beauty, I'm in love with you.

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

I would advise you to keep your overhead down; avoid a major drug habit; play everyday, and take it front of other people. They need to hear it, and you need them to hear it.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.

Shower the people you love with love.

The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.

In my mind I'm going to Carolina. Can't you see the sunshine, can't you just feel the moonshine? Ain't it just like a friend of mine, to hit me from behind, and I'm goin' to Carolina in my mind.

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

I'm trying to look at my blessings and how amazingly well against all odds things have turned out for me.

One day I'll be as strong as people think I am.

With too much pride a man cannot learn a thing. In and of itself, learning teaches you how foolish you are.

You are your own best teacher. ~Jimmy Buffett

If a story is only what it seems to be about, then somehow the author has failed.

It's not only joy as an act of defiance

To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

Friendship is like a rose. . . opening one petal at a time, only as it unfolds. . . day by day it reveals its true beauty.

When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him - that's where the money is.

Dean Martin's pancreas, who overheard his liver singing I got a right to sing the blues. Never got a dinner!

Whether carbon dioxide is quite the environmental villain that some people make it out to be is not yet proven.