Lyle Lovett
Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.Collection: Love
When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.Collection: Strong
Look around and you will see this world is full of creeps like me.Collection: Low Self Esteem
It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains of corn now and then.Collection: Girl
Man, I need to impress her, cause I'd like to undress her.Collection: Honesty
I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about creativity starts when you're very young and how we're allowed to experience our imagination. The people who bring us up and teach us are fundamental in either encouraging creativity or discourging creativity. My imagination was always encouraged.Collection: Creativity
My favorite Aggie joke? I'm sorry I don't understand the questionCollection: Sorry
I like my audience. I always feel when up on stage performing that I could enjoy having a cup of coffee with any one of them.Collection: Coffee
I'm a very lucky man. I get to do the thing I want most in life, write songs and sing them for people, and ride bikes. I love my family. I love my home. I get to work with people I've admired my whole life. It's a pretty good life.Collection: Song
Everybody's career is different. In this new age of being able to talk to the whole world at once, the possibilities are staggering, really, to be able to do things yourself. But I've always enjoyed my relationship with the record company.Collection: Careers
I'm really just trying to do things that I enjoy. I'm trying to play music that I like to play and like to listen to. I just have to think if I like those different kinds of music, there are other people who aren't so different from me.Collection: Thinking
Beyond hoping that someone will like one of my songs, I don't think about how a song will be received. I just hope that, when somebody hears one of my songs, they'll want to hear it again.Collection: Song
Home is where my horse is.Collection: Horse
If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem and you're screwed.Collection: Song
She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.Collection: Ugly
Singing your own songs is all about individual expressionCollection: Song
The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.Collection: Being Yourself
I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to make the record company money to help me keep my job. But I've never had anything so firmly ingrained in the mind of the public that I'm expected to repeat it.Collection: Jobs
I don't know what it is about the shower that generates creative thoughts. Maybe it's the hot water. Maybe it's being unencumbered even by the restriction of clothing.Collection: Water
The loss of Jerry Garcia feels like the end of an era in the same way it felt when Elvis died and John Lennon was killed.Collection: Loss
There's no bad luck, There's just the luck you've found.Collection: Luck
You have to be really good to get away with smashing a guitar.Collection: Guitar
Fortunately, I've never had a jobCollection: Jobs
My music has always been sort of in-between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd put my records in the country music section, but other record stores would put my records in the pop or even the rock section. As long as it's in the store somewhere, I'm OK with it.Collection: Country
Writin songs is like a mystery. The most difficult thing to do is have a good idea. If you have a decent idea, the songs are the easy part. Actually having something to say is the hard part. If you get an idea for a song, then it pulls you along. There are just some ideas that you get that are really hard to edit out; it's hard to stop thinking about some bad ideas. So you just finish it and you end up putting it on a record.Collection: Song
I married her just because she looks like you.Collection: Quality
I don't ever try to anticipate my audience. I just write the songs I want to write, and hope people like 'em.Collection: Song
Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination to develop.Collection: Gun
Who keeps on loving you when you've been lying, saying things that ain't what they seem? God does, but I don't. God will, but I won't.Collection: Lying
When someone tells me what he or she was doing the first time they heard a song of mine, then I've done a good job. If my song becomes about your life, then I'm successful.Collection: Song
I'm not the kind of writer that can wake up and say, "Okay, I'm gonna write a song today," and have that song be the kind I would want to record. The songs of mine that I end up liking are songs that come from real experience. They're like chapter titles in my life.Collection: Song
I played guitar when I was young and never really considered it as a way to make a livingCollection: Guitar
Denice Franke is a sensitive and compelling singer and songwriter.Collection: Singers
Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.Collection: Kissing