In the twilight glow I see her, blue eyes crying in the rain. As we kissed goodbye and parted, I knew we'd never meet again.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that's about all that's required.

I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then.

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

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

A lot of country music is sad.

There are just certain sounds, music, that sort of you know people are going to like it.