It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.

There's always one more way to do things and that's your way, and you have a right to try it at least once.

I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.

I'm just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.

Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.

When I look at you girl, I see a true work of art. So many beautiful things coming in one little heart.

Country music isn't a guitar, it isn't a banjo, it isn't a melody, it isn't a lyric. It's a feeling.

Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.

Take your tongue out of my mouth, I'm kissing you good-bye.

So I'm not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

Selfishness and greed, individual or national, cause most of our troubles.

Saturated Arrogance...she rebuked those about herin darkness did she dwella pathetic historyall mortal man would tell..

The human mind, if it is to keep its sanity, must maintain the nicest balance between unity and plurality.

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

I'd done recordings, little demos, since I was in college, which I used to get gigs. But I never thought I'd have a record label.

We used to have lots of questions to which there were no answers. Now, with the computer, there are lots of answers to which we haven't thought up questions.

I don't care much about the money at all. Frankly, if I get the chance to kiss someone in a movie, they wouldn't need to pay me at all.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are.

Sometimes the things we have to do are objectionable in the eyes of others.

It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.