Lyle Lovett

“Church is what you make it. It's the people you're with.”

“Anybody who thinks that the public is not smart is not very smart.”

“If I had a boat, I'd go out on the ocean. And if I had a pony, I'd ride him on my boat.”

“You can't second guess your audience. You can only do what you believe in.”

“I'm not a lady's man, I'm a musician's man.”

“It's just a matter of who you are and what you want to do. If you're a writer, you write.”

“My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank page and a pen.”

“The song is the star. The song is the reason you're there.”

“I've always been more comfortable making my own kind of music, and not trying to fit into any particular genre.”

“The reason I want to be alone is that I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've gone right if I had been alone.”

“What you see is what you get. I'm not a very complicated person.”

“I think the thing that I'm most proud of is that I've been able to make a living doing what I love to do.”

“I always feel like I'm a visitor in the music business.”

“Songwriting is like working on a puzzle. You have to find the right words to fit the right melody.”