If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff.

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

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 started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.