I'm too young for Medicare and too old for women to care..

Well, I hate to be the one to take the flyswatter to Tinker Bell, but....

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting..

But the most dangerous thing in the world in the world is to run the risk of waking up one morning and realizing suddenly that all this time you've b….

I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear..

The child-teacher relationship is crucial..

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979.

Always respect your superiors, if you have any..

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test..

I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed..

The reason educational spending in Texas is so low is because you don't have a state tax there, and that's why Texas is big growth because you don't ….

Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would be almost as bad as a cocaine habit, a hundred bucks….

It wasn't a healthy attitude, but it wasn't really a healthy world..

I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain..

I don't feel bad about losing..

You struggle with your demons and you conquer them..

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship.

The first thing I'll do if elected is demand a recount..

There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician..

You never marry the person you first see 'Casablanca' with..

If you don't love Jesus-go to hell!.