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" You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it. "

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

" I like to stick with music I know I can play. I love classical, but I don't think I could ever play it. I'm just not qualified. "

" 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!' "

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

" And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff. "

" My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round. "

" I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style! "

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

" 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. "

" Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true. "

" 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 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. "

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

" 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've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me! "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. "