The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.
Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer.
I love winners when they cry, losers when they try.
Make your melodies simple enough so that the average person can hum them.
When I first got to Nashville, somebody said that [Kris Kristofferson and I] were the only two people who could describe Dolly Parton without using their hands.
God bless little children while they're still too young to hate.
When you do something, you should burn yourself up completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself.
Most of the time, we think fast. And most of the time we're really expert at what we're doing, and most of the time, what we do is right.
I don't affiliate myself with any specific religious group. I connect to different ritualistic aspects of different belief systems, and I see the connecting thread between all religious beliefs.
Aristocratic depression has this cosmic dimension to it, where it's asking these big questions about, "Why?" "What is the purpose of all this?" Neuroses of the middle class is the banishment of aristocratic depression, because it's kind of this obsession with quotidian detail that pushes these larger questions away.