The only currency I value is the coin of the spirit. That's very important in my life. — Kinky Friedman Currency Copy Share Image
I don't think I have even achieved fame. Of course, Hemingway says that fame is death's little sister. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979 — Kinky Friedman Fiction Copy Share Image
I came from an upper-middle class home, which is always a hard cross for a country singer to bear. — Kinky Friedman Bears Copy Share Image
I've always said money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
If you're patient and you wait long enough, something will usually happen and it'll usually be something you don't like. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
People are drooling for the truth. They want honesty from politicians, and they're not getting it. — Kinky Friedman Drooling Copy Share Image
I am not anti-death penalty, but I'm damned sure anti-the-wrong-guy-getting-executed. — Kinky Friedman Death penalty Copy Share Image
I've achieved many of my dreams, and I want to see that some others get a chance to, especially younger Texans. — Kinky Friedman Chance Copy Share Image
You have to pretend that your life is a financial pleasure even when your autographs are bouncing. — Kinky Friedman Autographs Copy Share Image
Musicians can run this state better than politicians. We won't get a lot done in the mornings, but we'll work late and… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I don't believe in carrying a weapon. If somebody wants to shoot me, he'll have to bring his own gun. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books… — Kinky Friedman Around the world Copy Share Image
Like most of us, I determined that I'd rather be a large part of the problem than a small part of the… — Kinky Friedman Determined Copy Share Image
The good teachers are bailing out. Education is very important… This should be the centerpiece on the table of Texas. — Kinky Friedman Bailing out Copy Share Image
I don't remember the first half of my life. All I say is a happy childhood is the worst possible preparation for… — Kinky Friedman Childhood Copy Share Image
I'm going to lower the drinking age to eighteen. If you're old enough to die in Iraq, you're old enough to drink. — Kinky Friedman Age Copy Share Image
We're first on executions. We're 49th in funding public education. We're in a race with Mississippi for the bottom, and we're winning. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Cuban cigars is a big expense because I do smoke a lot of them, eight to 12 a day, so that would… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of… — Kinky Friedman Books Copy Share Image
All my adult life I've been in the practice of giving advice to people who are happier than I am. — Kinky Friedman Adult life Copy Share Image
Inspiration thing is important, to teach the kids that JFK is not an airport, RFK's not a stadium, Martin Luther King ain't… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Always beware of people offering you one-time money. That only works in an election year. How are you going to permanently pay… — Kinky Friedman Education Copy Share Image
“The only thing wrong with Southern Baptists was they didn't hold them underwater long enough.” — Kinky Friedman Baptists Copy Share Image
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute… — Kinky Friedman Affair Copy Share Image
You have to work at it if you want to be a good smoker. Especially today with all the non-smoking world constantly… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I believe that voices like Ross Perot, Pat Buchanan, Ralph Nader should be heard. They don't have to be president. Give 'em… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
“He looked like an accountant or a serial-killer type. Definitely one of the service industries.” — Kinky Friedman Serial killer Copy Share Image
Yes, I'm a Judeo-Christian. Jesus and Moses are in my heart, and... both of them were independents, by the way. — Kinky Friedman Christian Copy Share Image
If Willie Nelson had been Rosa Parks, there never would have been a civil rights movement in this country, because he refuses… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
On the whole I prefer cats to women because cats seldom if ever use the word 'relationship'. — Kinky Friedman Cat Copy Share Image
You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that. — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
This system is really broken. No Child Left Behind has really failed and the only way to solve education is to leave… — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
I just want Texas to be number one in something other than executions, toll roads and property taxes. — Kinky Friedman Property Copy Share Image
“Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.” — Kinky Friedman Experience Copy Share Image
The system is not perfect. Until it's perfect, let's do away with the death penalty. — Kinky Friedman Death Copy Share Image
And I think musicians can better run this state than politicians. And, hell, beauticians can better run the state than politicians. — Kinky Friedman Hell Copy Share Image
