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

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" Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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" Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!' "

" All my kids were raised on computers: They were home-schooled on the Internet, so they're pretty good at that stuff. And I'm proud of them, but I don't really keep up with it. "

" I just enjoy both working and not working. "

" You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection. "

" I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play. "

" 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. "

" You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. "

" Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues. "

" The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits - we're all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless. "

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

" 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. "

" America, to me, is freedom. "

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

" I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. "

" I started out writing poems before I figured to put melodies to them and play the guitar. Somewhere, there's a book out there on all those early songs and poems. I hope no one ever finds it. I don't think it's my finest work. "

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

" When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas. "