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I like doing chores.
'Sam Stone' is a song about futility.
In high school, I was a poor student.
Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.
For me, there's nothing like performing.
I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.
After cancer, I ain't scared of nothing.
I don't like to be caught without a pick.
Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.
I don't like to see Christmas trees torn down.
I'm not good at remembering things, in general.
In the Army, I was very good at avoiding my job!
If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.
I think of the Bible as an unauthorized biography.
Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.
When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.
Never wear your necktie while you're operating a lathe.
I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.
There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.
I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.
Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for.
Some voices don't blend. They just kinda rub against each other.
I just like a good, sad song. The sadder, the better. It moves me.
If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.
When I was a boy, my family used to watch a lot of Laurel and Hardy.
When you're singing somebody else's songs, it's just pure joy to me.
I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.
My sense of humor has saved me more than a couple of times in my life.
I still enjoy the heck out of getting up there to play shows every night.
I have to have something that really excites me in order to write about it.
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.
I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.
The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.
I can blame a lot of things for not writing songs, but cancer isn't one of them.
After a couple bouts with cancer and everything, black cats are nothin', you know?
Kris Kristofferson and Steve Goodman were the two most unselfish people I ever met.
Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.
I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.
My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.
If somebody tells me to work or exercise, I go the other way. I'll come up with an excuse.
When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.
If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.
I could never teach a class on songwriting. I'd tell them to goof off and find a good hideout.
The best way to write a song is to think of something else and then the song kind of creeps in.
Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.
How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say
I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.
I was kind of shy as a lad, and a lot of things that made me laugh, I found, did not make other people laugh.
I don't concern myself with where I fit in. I just keep my head down and keep doing whatever it is I'm going.