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" I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control. "

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" I used to work in the cotton fields a lot when I was young. There were a lot of African Americans working out there. A lot of Mexicans - the blacks and the whites and the Mexicans, all out there singing, and it was like an opera in the cotton fields, and I can still hear it in the music that I write and play today. "

" I grew up across the street from, you know, the Villarias, which was a great Mexican family there. In fact, there was three houses right across the street from me. So, day and night, I listened to Mexican music, and I'm sure, you know, my guitar playing, singing, writing, whatever, has a lot of Mexican flavor there, but it comes natural. "

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" I don't like to think too far ahead. "

" Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together. "

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" Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach. "

" When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too. "

" You want to be a good parent and you want to be a friend, and it's hard to be both. You have to balance it as well as you can. "

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" I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone. "

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" All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up? "

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" When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song. "

" I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'. "

" The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite. "

" Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there. "

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" If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves. "

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" I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. "

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