Those neon light nights, couldn't stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories. There is one in every crowd, for crying out loud, why was is always turning out to be me?

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

Walk with me now into this very bright night, and revere with me in silence what must be God-given and what is surely God-taken.

Perfectionism is the death of a great room.

Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

I think America as a whole has come more to terms with separating war from the warrior.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

The poet is a bird of strange moods. He descends from his lofty domain to tarry among us, singing; if we do not honor him he will unfold his wings and fly back to his dwelling place.

I've been fined probably more than any driver, and I've probably paid it out of my own pocket more than any driver.

Global market forces will sort out those companies that do not have sound corporate governance.

We have more and more ways to communicate, as Thoreau noted, but less and less to say.