"There are more serious problems in life than financial ones, and I’ve had a lot of those. I’ve been broke before, and will be again."
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"I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason."
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"How would you like to bite that in the ass, develop lock jaw and be dragged to death?"
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"Just because she's leaving, don't start believing, that your rock and roll days are gone."
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"I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body."
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"Like anything else, you can use the Internet for good or ill. You can get out of it what you want to. There's no evil about it. The way I see it, it's a liberation."
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"Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there."
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"When I was out in the bars drinking and fighting I was a little bit less of a peacemaker than I would be if I'd had a coupla hits of a joint and gone and laid down somewhere."
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"I think I'm basically the same guy I always was. Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have."
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"We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week."
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"(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience."
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"When you hear me, you know it's me, regardless of the song."
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"I think there must be safety in numbers. If you f - up enough times, they forget which one you really did. They start thinking, "Well, nobody can be that bad.""
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"Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business."
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"And as far as guitars go, I loved Jimmy Bryant and Speedy West's stuff."
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"As far as advice goes, an ex-father in law of mine once gave me the best advice I ever heard. He said, "Take my advice and do what you want to." So with that, go on."
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"If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic."
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"America, to me, is freedom."
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"My granddaddy died when I was about 6 years old, I think. And my grandmother took a job cooking in the school lunchroom. So she did great. She made $18 a week."
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"Well, it's a Bloody Mary morning, my baby left without warning."
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