Take it easy, but take it.

If we fix it so's you can't make money on war, we'll all forget what we're killing folks for.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

I got started in Oklahoma. That's where I was born. Population down there is one-third Indians, one-third Negroes and one-third white people.

Okemah was one of the singingest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.

Life's pretty tough . . . you're lucky if you live through it.

I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts.