Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song.

When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they're gone.

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".

You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.