It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don't need anybody to tell us what it's all about.

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

God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.

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 is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

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.