When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it.
When I think about country music, I think about America.
Those that have lived longer than us always have something to teach us, that we can take with us for the rest of our lives.
Life is – the way God has given it to me was just a platter – a golden platter of life laid out there for me. Its been beautiful.
Get rhythm when you get the blues.
Canadian Railroad Trilogy is an extremely fine piece of songwriting.
I like to sit on the front porch of an old cabin I built in the woods and just listen to the birds; I like to fish in the pond and I always throw the fish back.
I don’t like it, but I guess things happen that way.
The battle against the dark one and the clinging to the right one is what my life is about.
I wear black because I’m comfortable in it. But then in the summertime when it’s hot I’m comfortable in light blue.
Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I’ve worn black clothes ever since.
I wear the black for those who never read.
Life and love go on, let the music play.
Don’t take voice lessons. Do it your way.
A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart.
You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it.
When my wife died, I booked myself into the studio just to work, to occupy myself.
Some gal would giggle and I’d get red, and some guy’d laugh and I’d bust his head. I tell ya, life ain’t easy for a boy named Sue.
He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man.
Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be.