When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best. Willie Nelson More Quotes by Willie Nelson More Quotes From Willie Nelson 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. Willie Nelson doctors drunk should I think hemp is one of the greatest plants that God put in the ground, and I don't think anybody has the right to eradicate it. Just because somebody wants to get high with a joint, that's no reason to throw him in jail and take his damn belongings. He's just trying to get well. The mother - 's sick. That's why people drink beer when they come home from work. They're stressed out. That's all grass does. It's a big stress reliever. Willie Nelson get-well stress mother I got along without you before I met you and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone. Willie Nelson before-i-met-you gone long I believe that all roads lead to the same place - and that is wherever all roads lead to. Willie Nelson i-believe believe When I would sell encyclopedias, I would drive down the road looking for a house with a swing set in the back, and I'd say, "Oh, those folks got kids. They need some books." I'd knock on their door and sell them a set of encyclopedias, and those books were from $300 to $600. I'd look around the house, and if there wasn't that much furniture in the house, I felt a little bad about selling a $600 set of books to people who couldn't afford a couch. So I didn't last at that job very long. Willie Nelson jobs kids book Rather than trying to put an end to Eminem or some other rapper, politicians should think about why they're rapping. It's easier to try to censor some kid who's swearing about poverty than it is to stop the poverty. Willie Nelson rap kids thinking Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind Willie Nelson always-on-my-mind should-have song I have more dumb luck thank anybody I know. There must be a convey of guardian angels working twenty-four hours a day looking after me[...] Like the night I first got to Nashville that I laid down in the middle of Broadway, waiting to get run over. It didn't happen [...] I could swear they were keeping me alive just to see what I'd get next, I'm glad they feel that way. I'm trying to help them a little more this days. Willie Nelson angel running night I didn't come here and I ain't leavin'. Willie Nelson It's an ongoing problem, an ongoing situation, life is. It's just life, and it never stops and it never will. You just be thankful for what you've got, and move on. Willie Nelson ongoing being-thankful moving I started learning my lessons in Abbot Texas, where I was born in 1933. My sister Bobbie and I were raised by our grandparents [...] We never had enough money, and Bobbie and I started working at an early age to help the family get by. That hard work included picking cotton. [...] Picking cotton is hard and painful work, and the most lasting lesson I learned in the fields was that I didn't want to spend my life picking cotton. Willie Nelson grandparent texas hard-work There are more old drunks than there are old doctors. Willie Nelson doctors drinking beer I'm drowning in whiskey river. Willie Nelson drug alcohol rivers One thing I learned is that the mind, rather than being the master, should be the servant of the heart. Willie Nelson should mind heart You don't have to be poor to need something or somebody. Willie Nelson poor needs I got in at 2 with a 10, and woke up at 10 with a 2. Willie Nelson When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together. Willie Nelson hippie drinking beer When you're singing, you're using extra muscles, and it requires a lot of exercise and breathing. You can't do that if you're a sissy. If I have any fitness advice for people, I'd tell them to sing more. It's good therapy, too. Willie Nelson breathing exercise people 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. Willie Nelson persons special thinking My wife actually got worried about my drinking so much regular milk, you know, so she got me into rice milk and now soy milk, which I greatly enjoy. A soy mocha's a fine thing. Willie Nelson soy-milk wife drinking
