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" We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. "

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" It doesn't hurt to feel sad from time to time. "

From Time To Time

" I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. "

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

" 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 think most people realize that our problems are our government, not me and you individually, except that we can - must have some sort of responsibility, because they're in there and they were elected, so we have to defend ourselves on those lines. "

" Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. "

" I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. "

" There's a great enthusiasm for good country music all over the world. "

" I just enjoy both working and not working. And fortunately, I work enough where I get that out of my system, and then we take a few days off, take a rest. "

" If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time. "

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

" Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out. "

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

" What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else. "

" A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world. "

" I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. That's why I also believe in reincarnation, that we were put here with ideas to pass around. "

" We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week. "

" I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B. "

" I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. "

" Everything about Sinatra was good. He had the ability to pick great songs, and once Sinatra had sung them, that pretty much was it. He pretty much put his stamp on everything. "

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

" I text and email my friends and family a lot, but that's about the extent of my high-tech-etude. "

Friends And Family

" If a song was ever good, it's still good. "

" 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. "

" As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them. "

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

" I was born in Abbott, Texas, a little small town in central Texas, and I was raised by my grandparents. And my parents divorced when I was six months old, and my grandparents raised me. "

" Great songs stand out wherever they're from. "

" I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong? "

" There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies. "