The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.

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.

Those who only look back at the past are certain to miss their future.

To give a man full knowledge of true morality I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

The key of joy is disobedience.

Psychopaths know intellectually what is immoral they just don't have a feeling of immorality about it.

Much sheer effort goes into avoiding the truth; left to itself, it sweeps in like the tide.

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

I tend to gravitate toward Proenza Schouler and Alexander Wang. Their designs are accessible and easy.

Restaurants that have health-conscious consumers will pay attention to this.

Obama shows no sign of easing up on negativity.

I think there are only two times that I've ever ended up paying somebody their quote. Like what they actually were worth in the marketplace.