133 Quotes by John Prine

I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was...I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually-usually sometime around 3 in the morning-I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

If heartaches was commercials, we'd all be on TV.

Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there.

Bewildered, bewildered, you have no complaint. You are what you are, and you ain't what you ain't.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

I guess if you keep making the same mistake long enough, it becomes your style.

Blow up your TV...throw away your paper...move to the country and build you a home. Plant a little garden...eat a lot of peaches...try and find Jesus on your own.

The dressing rooms are bigger and cleaner, and the money gets better.