I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

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

When I was growing up, Nashville was the place to go if you had songs to sell and thought you had talent and wanted to tour and be on Grand Ole Opry [radio show]. It was the big deal back in those days to play the Grand Ole Opry. And you could travel around the world saying, "Hi, I'm Willie from the Grand Ole Opry".

I'm crazy for trying, crazy for crying, and I'm crazy for loving you.

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

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