I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again.

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.

I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times.

At 82, Nelson (who wrote the song "On the Road Again," among a thousand or more others) is the elder statesman of country music, a steadying and powerful voice in the industry and on environmental issues, and he's still on the road much of the year. The music keeps calling.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money.