"I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels."
"A friend is never an imposition."
"A fella came up to me the other day with a nice story. He was in a bar somewhere and it was the quiet time of the night. Everybody's staring down at the sauce and one of my saloon songs comes on the jukebox. 'One for My Baby,' or something like that. After a while, a drunk at the end of the bar looks up and says, jerking his thumb toward the jukebox, 'I wonder who he listens to?'"
"Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does."