Since I was a kid, music was what I wanted to do. I thought I could make it by my own talents. That’s what I wanted to prove.

If you want to find out who your real friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

We’re still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

How do you stop terrorism when your enemy is scattered in 80 countries?

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

Love is like a dying ember, only memories remain.

When I started making records, I was just trying to make a living.

I’ve toned down, but toning down ain’t the same thing as quitting.

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.

Fortunately, we are not in control.

All I do is play music and golf – which one do you want me to give up?

There’s a lot of money in the music business, but you don’t have to have money to have a good time.

If you’re not crazy there’s something wrong with you. Willie Nelson

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

We won the war, blew Afghanistan sky-high. Big deal. Blew up a lot of dirt. I can’t see that we have won any wars.

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

I never took a music lesson in my life. You can’t learn music from a book.

Too much of anything is no good. Too much alcohol, too much sugar. I think pot is a lot less harmful than alcohol for most people. What happens to people on pot? They get mellow! People who are drinking can get dangerous, but not people on pot.

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.

Freedom is control in your own life.

I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn’t make any money.

There’s more old drunks than there are old doctors.

There’s one more thing about Viagra. They say it can make a lawyer taller.

America, to me, is freedom.

Indecision may or may not be our biggest problem.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

My grandmother is over 100, and we don’t know when she was born. I don’t know how old she is, and she doesn’t either.

The IRS didn’t mean to do me a favor, but in a way they did. They helped me clean house. I didn’t need all that stuff anyway.

Be gentle with your words – you can’t take them back.

There is only one map to the journey of life and it lives within your heart.

Anybody can be unhappy. We can all be hurt. You don’t have to be poor to need something or somebody. Rednecks, hippies, misfits – we’re all the same. Gay or straight? So what? It doesn’t matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people, regardless.

I think music is a beautiful way of saying things that are too hard to put into words.

Jokes help pass the time on the road and they help get through life. You got to laugh. I always loved a good joke.

We are the same. There is no difference anywhere in the world. People are people. They laugh, cry, feel, and love, and music seems to be the commons denomination that brings us all together. Music cuts through all boundaries and goes right to the soul.

Just can’t wait to get on the road again.

Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn’t hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.

You can’t be a country singer if you’re not country.

Marijuana is like sex. If I don’t do it every day, I get a headache. I think marijuana should be recognized for what it is, as a medicine, an herb that grows in the ground. If you need it, use it.

I think it is just terrible and disgusting how everyone has treated Lance Armstrong, especially after what he achieved winning seven Tour de France races while on drugs……When I was on drugs I couldn’t even find my bike.

I live one day at a time, one day at a time. Yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is blind, so I live one day at a time.

It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.

I think people forget that I started out playing music before I was in the business of music.

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

If you wait for tomorrow to follow your dreams, by the time that you get there they’re gone.

Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there.

You know why divorces are so expensive? They’re worth it.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

Ninety-nine percent of the world’s lovers are not with their first choice. That’s what makes the jukebox play.

I take it not only a day at a time, but a moment at a time, and keep it at that pace. If you can be happy right now, then you’ll always be happy, because it’s always in the now.

What goes around, comes around.

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.