"I am not a pig farmer. The pigs had a great time, but I didn't make any money."
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"If you want to make marijuana legal, you've got to stay straight long enough to f - vote."
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"I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad."
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"I had gotten up to two, maybe three, packs (of cigarettes) a day. And my lungs were bothering me and I'd had pneumonia two or three times. And I was also smoking pot, and I decided, well, one of them's got to go. And so I took a pack of Chesterfields and took all the Chesterfields out, rolled up 20 big fat ones and put it in there, and I haven't smoked a cigarette since then."
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"You could try to live monogamously. Good luck."
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"I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about - broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime."
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"Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues."
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"The life I love is making music with my friends."
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"Family farmers are small farmers who love the land. They're still not getting enough money for their product and are rapidly losing their battle to stay in business. By helping the American family farmer, we will in turn help ourselves out of the economic hole that we find ourselves in today. It doesn't really matter how we got here; the point is, we have to dig our way out."
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"I'm drinking doubles now that you're running around single again."
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"All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?"
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"I believe in looseness."
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"Sadly, there are more wild horses in holding pens than in the wild."
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"When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best."
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"Vaporizers are good for your lungs. Cigarette smoke will kill you. I never heard of anybody dying from marijuana smoke. Vaporizers I think are smarter."
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"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."
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"I've known straight and gay people all my life. I can't tell the difference... But I'd never marry a guy I didn't like."
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"I like myself better when I'm writing regularly."
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"My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister."
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"I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again"
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