It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.

If Barbara Walters was interviewing me, I'd figure her career was as dead as mine!

I think the nature of songwriters is that they are philosophers, and philosophers have a bent towards poetry and songwriting, so I think that the two run around together. The nature of a songwriter could be philosophical. Looking for universal ideas, a way to say things, get the story across as a means of entertaining, provoking thought.

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.

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

Nobody knows a hit before it's a hit.