If you've made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2.

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.

Heard you told him that you'd love him 'til the end of time. Now that's the same thing that you told me.

Whoever supports the farmer is the guy for America.

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.