I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
God bless little children while they’re still too young to hate.
The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it’s working, it was your idea, and if it’s not, it’s somebody else’s idea.
It’s Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.
She gave her heart to Jethro and her body to the whole wide world.
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.
After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
I was quite a reader before I became a writer.
I have had hundreds of people work for me over the years, and I don’t think I ever fired anybody.
I have my own religion. I’m sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish.
A monkey was the President, though maybe not the first. And there was peace and harmony throughout the universe.
Me and Jesus got our own thing going on. We don’t need anybody to tell us what it’s all about.
Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.
It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.
A song is a poem set to music.
Nobody knows a hit before it’s a hit.
Songwriting is as much a craft as a talent.
I am a fan of history.
I never fixed a story. I didn’t make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it.