“Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.”

When evolution has been outlawed, only the outlaws will evolve.

I’m from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there’s no one in control.

God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

Let’s get the government stay out of our private lives, once and for all, and stop arresting smokers. Let’s take a stand for personal freedom.

It’s an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It’s just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you’ve got, and move on.

Nothing lasts forever, but old Fords and a natural stone.

I learned some invaluable lessons in Nashville that apply to both farming and show business: Do not corner something you know is meaner than you; keep skunks of all kinds at a distance; if you forgive your enemies, it messes up their heads.

One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart.

You could try to live monogamously. Good luck.

The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.

Freedom is control in your own life.

Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is.

When I see someone I think is cool, he’s a pretty well-adjusted individual. He’s not too affected one way or the other by what’s happening, no matter what’s going through his mind.

As long as there’s a few farmers out there, we’ll keep fighting for them.

A lot of country music is sad. I think most art comes out of poverty and hard times. It applies to music. Three chords and the truth – that’s what a country song is. There is a lot of heartache in the world.

What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.

European children starved and watched their parents scheme and die. Here we grew up with toy whips. Early warning against our future leaders, the war babies.

My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.

Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body.

Let us eat, drink, and love for tomorrow we die, would be in fact the language of reason, the morality of life; and who but a fool would part with a reality for a fleeting shadow?

I don’t want to be a star, merely dying.

Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.

When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.