If I hear another line dance song I think I'm going to puke.

I've always known that I was a gifted person. ... I've always felt like I would be punished, severely, if I didn't continue to make use of that gift. It's very important that you don't let the muscle get flabby. It's really hard, as an old human being, to press as much weight as you pressed when you were a kid.

We're turning into the society that is accepting the force-feed. I don't quite understand why we're going for the things we're going for. There's no process of elimination anymore in music. They have these grooming schools, these things, and they're turning out these clones, and the music is sounding so refined that it's not even interesting.

We don't smoke marijuana in Muskogee, we don't take trips on LSD. We don't burn our draft cards down on Main Street, we like living right and free.

Lay in the weeds and wait, and when you get your chance to say something, say something good.

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.