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.

The words are the important thing. Don't worry about tunes. Take a tune, sing high when they sing low, sing fast when they sing slow, and you've got a new tune.

I like to write about wherever I happen to be.

Life has a habit of not staying hitched. You got to ride it like you find it.

All you can write is what you see.

This land is your land, this land is my land

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!