John Prine

My first Grammy nomination? I was 24 - I was nominated for best new artist of the year.

— John Prine

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

— John Prine

If I can make myself laugh about something that I should be crying about, that's pretty good.

— John Prine

When I'm making my own record, it's real work for me.

— John Prine

I wrote most of 'Hello in There' in a relay box, which looks like a mail box, only bigger. Sometimes, it was…

— John Prine

All the girls over there in Ireland are well versed in American country music. Jim Reeves and Patsy Cline are like king…

— John Prine

I guess what I always found funny was the human condition.

— John Prine

I found it easier to make up songs than to learn other people's songs.

— John Prine

I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan.

— John Prine

I had a year-round Christmas tree with nothing but colored vinyl 45s hanging on it, like, old Elvis records and stuff.

— John Prine

I like doing chores.

— John Prine

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

— John Prine

I take my own syrup, ketchup, and mustard, just in case of emergencies, in my suitcase. Whatever I can steal from the…

— John Prine

As far as guitar picking, if I make the same mistakes at the same time every day, people will start calling it…

— John Prine

Johnny Cash was like Abraham Lincoln to me.

— John Prine

Soon as I could play one guitar chord and laid my ear upon that wood, I was gone. My soul was sold.…

— John Prine

I think if you write from your own gut, you'll come up with something interesting, whereas if you sit around guessing what…

— John Prine

When I was a mailman, writing songs was my escape from the regular world, and now writing songs is my job. And…

— John Prine

I sound like that old guy down the street that doesn't chase you out of his apple tree.

— John Prine

For me, there's nothing like performing.

— John Prine

I grew up in Chicago, but I spent a lot of time down in Kentucky, and Kentucky was about 20 years behind…

— John Prine

The Songwriters Hall of fame, that's the one all the big-time writers get into, the really great stuff, the Broadway stuff and…

— John Prine

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to…

— John Prine

I'd rather get a hot dog or a doughnut than write a song.

— 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…

— John Prine