Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.

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.

•Spirit is like hell of difficulties, problems, etc .. But only we humans create our life easy heaven by spreading love all over.

I am in the prime of senility.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

Why does everybody think that women are debasing themselves when we expose the conditions of our debasement?

All people deserve respect, but not all ideas do.

Change is inevitable in music - things change.

If I'm not a jazz player all the time, I've at least been cued in to what I do by jazz.

Maybe in the future I'll put out someone's one-off project, but generally I don't have time.

A business must have a conscience as well as a counting house.