133 Quotes by John Prine

If some part of the review is true, those are the ones that sting.

People thought we were crazy for starting a record company. They really thought I was shooting myself in the foot.

My music has been called so many different things over the years. I figure as long as it's selling, call it what you want.

I was a mailman walking in the snow six days a week, 12-hour days. Every two weeks, I'd get a check for $228.

Man, I hated school. I'd stare at the buttons on the teacher's shirt the whole class.

I try to write about things that actually happened so that I know it's real before I put it down on paper.

Ignorance is bliss as a writer, I think.

I didn't hear anybody talking about the plight of a soldier coming back home and what he'd gone through. That was why I wrote about that stuff. If somebody else had done it, I probably wouldn't have touched the subject.

The only time I ever think about getting old is when I look in the mirror. I feel pretty good about it, actually.