A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.

I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.

She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.

I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.

When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.

I had the notion that I wanted to write the great dirty American novel, so I went to Roanoke College on the GI Bill.