Willie Nelson

“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.”

“Great songs stand out wherever they're from.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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 don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.”

“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.”

“I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.”

“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!'”

“Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That's what I wanted to prove.”

“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 am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.”

“I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.”

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