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.

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.

I'm drowning in whiskey river.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever.

Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning.