Quotes

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

When George Jones died, we lost the greatest country singer who ever lived. Every time he stepped in front of a mike, he knocked me out. "She Thinks I Still Care' is my favorite. Then there's 'White Lightning', and the list goes on forever. His delivery on 'He Stopped Loving Her Today' is comparable to a fine opera. He's conveying something there about as well as it can be conveyed. I think he's with the Lord, probably having a great time , him and old Hank Williams and all the rest. ( Wait a minute now, Hank may not be there.) George was real .. the most down-to-earth old country boy - didn't want anything special. He was just George Jones and we loved him.

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

I've never been a guy that can do what people told me, it's always been my nature to fight the system.

I would've become a lifetime criminal if music hadn't saved my ass

I'm living proof that things go wrong in America and I'm also living proof that things can go right.

I haven't had any problems with my back since I got the foot surgery.

There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story.

At my age, I don't buy but a half a loaf of bread, you know?

95% of the album is my writing, by choice, because it seems to be what the distributors want.

When I grew up there wasn't air-conditioning or anything of that nature, and this old car had a wall thickness of about ten inches. So we had a little warmer house in the winter and a little cooler in the summer.