“You could try to live monogamously. Good luck. There's people who say thinking about cheating is just as bad as doing it, so if you start looking at it from that angle, they got us all.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Monogamy, Cheating, Hypergamy
“There is no such thing as an ex-wife. If you had a relationship, just because you don't live with them anymore doesn't mean that they're a non-human being, and if they want to say hello, then there should be a hello.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: ex-wife, Divorce, hello, When Lovers Become Strangers
“If you start out looking at somebody, wondering whether he's good or bad, I think you're starting out in the wrong direction. I think we're all good and we're all bad.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Good and Bad, Good, Bad
“Contradiction exists in everyone. There's really nothing wrong with the fact that the same people who sing ‘Whiskey River’ at the show tonight also sing ‘Amazing Grace.’ When I was back teaching Sunday school, I used to teach the same people on Sunday mornings that I sang to on Saturday nights. Noth…”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Contradiction, Whiskey River, Amazing Grace, Sunday School
“Being open has helped me. With smoking pot or anything else. It's just a lot easier not to make excuses for who I am and what I do. It has to do with getting from point A to point B, retaining my sanity, and still progressing—taking some lemons and making some lemonade.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Being Open, Smoking Pot, Making excuses
“Freedom is control in your own life. I have more control now than in the past, and I'm learning the value of saying no. That's very important.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Freedom, Control, Saying No
“A guy named Ben Dorsey used to work for Johnny Cash, and he had a bunch of suits that Johnny had given him. He was walking down the street in Nashville in front of the Grand Ole Opry, and this guy came up with a guitar in his hand and thought Ben was one of the stars because he had on Cash's suit. H…”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Ben Dorsey, Johnny Cash, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville
“We've already been reincarnated about a million times, maybe. It doesn't make sense any other way. How can we be created equal if there's a guy over here sitting on the corner, blind, with no feet, trying to make it, and there's another guy out there running around in a new Cadillac with two girls o…”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Reincarnation, Cadillac, Equality
“I started writing cheating songs when I was too young to have any idea what I was writing about—broken hearts and things like that. I just think it was something I already knew, something I had experienced in another lifetime.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Cheating, Cheating Songs, Country Music, Broken Hearts, Reincarnation
“Maybe I've learned, through experience, to rein in some of the anger and temper they say redheads normally have. My grandmother used to tell me that a hard head makes a sore ass.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Experience, Anger, Redheads, grandmother
“Cruelty is all out of ignorance. If you knew what was in store for you, you wouldn't hurt anybody, because whatever you do comes back much more forceful than you send it out.”— Willie Nelson, esquire.comTagged: Cruelty, Ignorance, Karma