My long hair just can't cover up my redneck.

All men are created equal, it is only men themselves who place themselves above equality.

I've never wanted anybody to like me because I had long hair or short hair, or that they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I dressed or they liked the way I smile.

One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.

Teach my children to love! They'll learn to hate on their own

Now I lay me down to cheat on the woman I love so, and if I die between these sheets I pray to God she'll never know.

I took the hardest possible route that you could take, and I still overcame and succeeded.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

You don't have to call me 'Mister', Mister; The whole world called me 'Hank'!

The Beatles were just the beginning of everything music could be, just like the Stones I was Rolling along like a ship lost out on the sea.

If there ever was a poet for the working class Billy Joe Shaver and Merle Haggard would be my nomination

Never let your tiny age misguide you to think the time is not yet up. Get up and do it at any age.

Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be.

Well that's actually happened to me a couple of times... but I really think that men, when it comes to falling in love, are less... I guess you could say less aggressive.

I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly.

I think every character I play has a physicality to them, so I have to stay in some sort of shape. I'll never be a size two. And I don't want to be a size two.

The Internet is by the people, for the people.

Story, finally, is humanity's autobiography.

Be. Nice. To. Each. Other!

My life was not useless; I gave important truths to the world, and it was only for want of understanding that they were disregarded. I have been ahead of my time.

I quit my job at the helium gas factory. I didn't like being spoken to in that voice.