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“I think maybe I was born to be a songwriter. It's quite a comfort. I wrote most of my songs to stay alive, the rest to get back in the house.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver talks Waylon, women, more (2014)

“I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver: Outlaw Country's Real Deal (2014)

“I churched it and churched it. I got born again, slowly. I've slid back several times, but it seemed like it don't matter. God will give you seven times 70 a chance. I've pushed it to the limit a time or two.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver talks Waylon, women, more (2014)

“I look to bop till I drop. That's what I want to do. I want to go out on the road […]I love to travel and I couldn't afford to do it if it wasn't for this.”

Billy Joe Shaver

A Conversation with Billy Joe Shaver (2014)

“The main thing is to make up your mind. If you're going to do it, do it, and if you're just going to halfway do it don't even try. This is a very demanding thing. I stay simple, I didn't get a whole lot of education, so most of it's just coming from what I gathered up. If you stay honest we've all got in common that we're all different. If you stay real deadly honest and write about some very interesting things then you'll be a good one. A lot of people just don't like to get honest but it's the cheapest psychiatrist there is. I think that's the way to look at it.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Statement made by Shaver when asked for an advice to young musicians
A Conversation with Billy Joe Shaver (2014)

“I'm a serious guy, and hungry, too.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver talks Waylon, women, more (2014)

“Hopefully things will work out where we become friends enough so that he gives me back my bullet.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Statement made by Shaver after being acquitted from aggravated assault charges.
Billy Joe Shaver: Outlaw Country's Real Deal (2014)

“Most of the things I write are things that are personal to me. I realized that that's the only way to really be honest. If you go writing about someone else you're just guessing at it.”

Billy Joe Shaver

Billy Joe Shaver Bares 'Tooth,' First Album in Seven Years (2014)

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