Willie Nelson

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

“I'm a romantic slob!”

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

“There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.”

“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?”

“I wanted to connect all people who are thinking about peace on Earth.”

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

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

“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.”

“The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care 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.”

“Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.”

“America, to me, is freedom.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.”