“I didn’t come here and I ain’t leavin’.”

I been a long time leaving but I’m going to be a long time gone.

I never pretended to have a great voice. It works and I can carry a tune. If you have a good song, that’s about all that’s required.

Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind.

When you’re singing, you’re using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can’t do that if you’re a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I’d tell them to sing more. It’s good therapy, too.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I believe that all roads lead to the same place – and that is wherever all roads lead to.

If you’ve made your own hell, then only you have the power to escape it.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn’t in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.

Oh, I think it’s definitely spiritual. All music is. I think it’s maybe one of the highest forms of spirituality.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

When you put your life in a good place, good things follow.

I’m an old fashioned joint smoker ya know.

Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild.

You’ll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.

I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you.

If you decide that you’re going to do only the things you know are going to work, you’re going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.

People always leave. Don’t get too attached.

I try to stay in a constant state of confusion just because of the expression it leaves on my face.

The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never leave. Our lives are measured by these.

It is the wise man’s part to leave in darkness everything that is ugly.

We will expand the circle of women’s success by working to promote the taking of leave and leave for men raising children.

Grit and lipstick, two things you should never leave home without!