Willie Nelson Speaks

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

As long as there's a few farmers out there, we'll keep fighting for them.
Willie Nelson

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

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

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

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
Willie Nelson

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.
Willie Nelson

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?
Willie Nelson

I was influenced a lot by those around me - there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields.
Willie Nelson

If you got the money honey I got the time and when you run out of money honey I run out of time.
Willie Nelson

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

Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.
Willie Nelson

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.
Willie Nelson

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

We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
Willie Nelson

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

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

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

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