Merle Haggard

“I think I'm most proud of my family right now. I'm more into that then I've ever been. It also gives a new area to draw from in creativity with my songs.”

“Sometimes if you get 'em too drunk they don't pay no attention to what you're doin' anyways, so you might as well just do old songs. But if you get one that's paying attention, sometimes we'll do some new material.”

“It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.”

“And then I have two children by Theresa, one boy 10 and one girl 13.”

“And then, of course, there's a couple that claim to be, but I haven't done any DNA tests or anything.”

“I've got two families.”

“They shaved a little piece of bone off my small toe. You see, you balance yourself a certain way and this toe had grown under the other ones. So he cut it loose, where I could balance myself and it makes me walk straight.”

“There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.”

“Everybody likes Johnny Cash. I think the sad part of it is his health is givin' him problems.”

“I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don't know about the music.”

“'Cause I was already a smoker, it was easy to get addicted. The one thing that they don't teach you about marijuana is how addictive it is.”

“And there's some Latino music I like, and some reggae music.”

“It sounds like something from a Woody Guthrie song, but it's true; I was raised in a freight car.”