Quotes By Willie Nelson

I'm a romantic slob!

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

Freedom is control in your own life.

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.

My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down - but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let's all have another round.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.

I like to play small clubs.

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.

But if you think of all the people who don't like me, just think of all the millions who've never heard of me!

You know why divorces are so expensive? They're worth it.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

If a song was ever good, it's still good.

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.

The first time I got onstage was when I was about 5 years old. It was at a church social, and I had a poem to recite.

We're still here trying to get the word out that 330 farmers are quitting every week.

I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'.

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.

I'm from Texas, and one of the reasons I like Texas is because there's no one in control.

A lot of country music is sad.

You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

There are only so many notes so there must be only so many melodies.

When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.

I don't like to think too far ahead.

Where I grew up, Bob Wills and his western swing was very popular. And western swing is not that far from jazz and blues.

Three chords and the truth - that's what a country song is.

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.

Well the country songs themselves are three-chord stories, ballads which are mostly sad. If you are already feeling sorry for yourself when you listen to them they will take you to an even sadder place.