I have a special place in my heart for Nashville because it saved my life back in the day.
I think I'm a much better father as an older man than I was with my first kids. Occasionally, I have to yell at the little guys, but they don't take me seriously. 'Listen to the old guy,' they say. 'Isn't he great? He's mad.'
I had a list of rules I made up one time. It says: Tell the truth, sing with passion, work with laughter, and love with heart. Those are good to start with, anyway.
You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
My old man worked for Pan American.
The first movie I was ever on was a Dennis Hopper film down in Peru.
I was never big or fast, but I got to play football and box.
There's a time where people were out holding posters in protest outside shows I was doing, and thankfully, we've moved past that. And a lot of country stations wouldn't play me. They were more conservative than I was.
I have no neighbors. I live in a small town where everybody is very protective of me.
Your weight has to be behind the punch to make it matter.
They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.
I don't think I'm that good a singer. I can't think of a song that I've written that I don't like the way somebody else sings it better.
I used to think that my songs were the best things that I would leave behind me. And I definitely think my kids are now. For starters, they're writing better songs than I was at their age.
Every time I turn on the radio, I must be on the wrong song or something. But, to be honest, since I went on the road back in 1970, I didn't listen to radio music because I didn't want to subconsciously steal somebody's stuff.
Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
The most valuable thing to me seems to be time, and with time, I can be great. I have been... and I will be.
Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
