I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

There's so many things going on in the world, Babies dying. Mothers crying. How much oil is one human life worth. And what ever happened to peace on earth.

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.