Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

I got me a fine wife and I got me old fiddle, when the suns coming up I got cakes on the griddle. And life ain't nothing, but a funny, funny riddle.

Heck, I'm no Henry Mancini or Michel Legrand. I just play the guitar and write songs.

I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

Love the earth as you would love yourself.

The best thing you have to offer the world is yourself. You don't have to copy anyone else. If you do, you're second best. To achieve success is to be first, and that's being yourself.