1- I had fought for my independence and fought for my freedom to do as I chose
2- I’ve been writing songs since I was a little boy. You know, I think I wrote my first song when I was 11.
3- By not having to live up to people’s expectations, I was somehow free
4- The number-one rule of the road is never go to bed with anyone crazier than yourself. You will break this rule, and you will be sorry.
5- Just the words and melody – that’s what moves your emotions
6- Looking back, I’m surprised I had the nerve to do it, but I’m glad I did. Performing the songs and performing in film was just a part of my personality, just like football and boxing at one point in my life. I was able to lose myself in both of them, and that was a good feeling
7- I have no regrets. I feel very grateful for the life that I had – you know, family I live with; and I’ve been doing work that I love, ever since I came to Nashville.
8- To me, if you love it enough to devote your life to it, then you’re doing the right thing
9- Freedom’s just another word for “nothing left to lose”
10- Every album I’ve made is about what I’m experiencing at the time.
11- I hope that I’ll keep being creative until they throw dirt on me.
12- The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young
13- The heart is what matters most of all
14- If God made anything better than women, I think he kept it for himself.
15- The older I get, the less conservative I become
16- There are points in your life, especially if you have creative ambitions, where selfishness is necessary
17- I’d trade all my tomorrows for one single yesterday
18- The world he saw was sadder than the one he hoped to find. But it wasn’t near as lonesome as the one he left behind.
19- Bad love is better than no love at all, at least you know you’re alive.
20- I think that a society lives or dies according to its respect for – for its art.
21- Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
22- As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn’t cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.
23- I thought he was the greatest thing. Bob Dylan
24- My thirsty wanted whiskey.
25- Human rights is something that wasn’t hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights
26- Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. ‘Cause that’s all that matters in the end.
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