My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

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

Just take what you need from the ladies and leave them.

Oh, I think it's definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it's maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days.

My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.

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