If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

- Ronnie Van Zant

I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any…

- Ronnie Van Zant

I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

- Ronnie Van Zant

If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

- Ronnie Van Zant

There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got…

- Ronnie Van Zant

What song is it you want to hear?

- Ronnie Van Zant