When you get to readin' about where the music and John Steinbeck and all those people like that come from, the further you go the more interesting it becomes.

By the time you get close to the answers, it's nearly all over.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

I'll tell you what the public likes more than anything, it's the most rare commodity in the world - honesty.

Momma tried to raise me better, but her pleading I denied, and that leaves only me to blame, cause Momma tried.

I wish coke was still cola and a joint was a bad place to be.

Faith is the only way we're going to make it. None of us are smart enough to do it on our own.

Running down on a way of life our fighting men have fought and died to keep. If you don't love it, leave it.

The only thing that I miss lately in all music is somebody that will put out a melody that you can whistle. It doesn't seem like there's anything happening like that.

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

Having a job is being busy

If his drunkenness had legs, it would be Alexander the Great and conquer the known world. Then it would puke for a week into a solid gold toilet it stole from Zeus's guest room.

When you are writing you're creating beauty for mind.

The moon had never been as bright as the shine it was granting the sky with, committing every moment until sunrise.

luck is distributed at six in the morning

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

One has no friend who has many friends.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

There would be a lot more optimists if it weren't for the rise-and-shine requierement.