I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.