Quotes By Willie Nelson

America, to me, is freedom.

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.

I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone.

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

What has changed is that nothing has changed... that's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

I guess if you can't sing, you better have a style!

I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone.

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.

The whole house came up and I came up with it... I was just praying to the Lord to take care of me.

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

Waylon Jennings and I had a lot of fun recording together.

I don't think any person has any special knowledge about what God has planned for me and you any more than me and you do.

I'm a romantic slob!

A lot of country music is sad.

Freedom is control in your own life.

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?

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

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 like to play small clubs.

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!

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.

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

I just enjoy both working and not working.

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

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

All I do is play music and golf - which one do you want me to give up?

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