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" Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy hat, baseball hat, or otherwise. "

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" If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem, and you're screwed. "

" Dad often told me, 'My job is to help my boss do his job and make him look good.' That was my dad's objective. Everything about the way he conducted himself was to communicate support for his superiors and respect for his coworkers. The way he dressed was his starting point in that communication. "

" I am limited by what I can think of to do-my choices are not so great. "

" As a songwriter, you try your best to write a good song, and you like nothing better than hearing a good song. It's easy to admire a great song, and you want to share out of enthusiasm. "

" It's really a lot easier to write about things that are problematic. Who wants to hear how happy you are? "

" I've always thought that writing isn't really that hard. It's having a good idea that's hard. "

" In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew it, I might whisper it to my buddy and let him answer. I kept quiet. "

" I've always worked with people who have been supporters of me creatively. "

" Records are very powerful promotional tools to go out and be able to play on the road, but you do have to think about it as a way of sustaining itself at some point. "

" Every crowd is different. But that's something that I enjoy, and you can feel it in the first few seconds when you walk out on stage. You know, how a crowd is. "

" I don't feel like I'm on a mission. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. "

" I've never made a dime from a record sale in the history of my record deal. I've been very happy with my sales, and certainly my audience has been very supportive. I make a living going out and playing shows. "

" I'm not really a competitive person, and I'm not naturally comfortable in front of people. "

" Fortunately, I've never had a job. "

" Growing up, the last thing I ever thought I'd do is be an entertainer. "

" My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school. "

" I've been lucky to be able to make the records I've wanted to make. The record company has never pressured me to cut certain songs. "

" The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck. "

" Songwriters aren't always performers, and even performing songwriters aren't always the kind of show-biz performers you think they'd be. "

" Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result. "

" When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and Vince Bell and Townes Van Zandt and Don Sanders were just really encouraging to me and would let me sit in with them during their sets and introduce me to the person that owned and booked the club. "

" You can't second-guess your audience. You can only do what you think is right. If you do that, your audience will appreciate you. "

" One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really fun to see if you can remember something, and you don't always. I mean, sometimes it's just crash and burn. "

" My first performance was in second grade with my friend Rodney Fisher, and we worked up versions of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'I Want to Hold Your Hand.' It gave me a little early confidence that I could actually do this music thing. "

" Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the weaker sex; it's perhaps an acknowledgment of women as the stronger sex. "

" I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a living. "

" I've gotten to work with some wonderful directors and people who have been great teachers to me. "

" I'm really in no danger of being perceived as a famous movie actor! "

" You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your whole life in common. "