Willie Nelson Writing Quotations

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience.

Songwriters might write cynical, world-wise lyrics and constantly talk about money, but most of us are downright naive when it comes to business.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. ... I was influenced a lot by those around me-there was a lot of singing that went on in the cotton fields. ... I'm a country songwriter and we write cry-in-your-beer songs. That's what we do. Something that you can slow dance to...I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad. ... Most of the stuff I've read about me has been true.

I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.

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

I don't remember Moses writing, 'Thou shalt not kill.. unless you think you have a good reason.