Lyle Lovett

Helen Hunt is terrific, and I got to do a couple of guest spots with Helen and Paul Reiser on 'Mad About…

— Lyle Lovett

In school, I didn't speak up often in class. I was never the person to yell out an answer. If I knew…

— Lyle Lovett

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off…

— Lyle Lovett

The idea that we humans are good-natured, politically correct, nonjudgmental beings is pure fantasy. We are, at the very least, judgmental.

— Lyle Lovett

Horses teach you patience and how to do things the right way so you can get the right result.

— Lyle Lovett

Somehow you can tell the difference when a song is written just to get on the radio and when what someone does…

— Lyle Lovett

She was ugly from the front, and I said ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly, ugly. Well, I could handle it behind her.

— Lyle Lovett

Kemo Sabe, kiss my ass.

— Lyle Lovett

When you have a solid upbringing and a strong sense of place, that sustains you. My sense of home never leaves me.

— Lyle Lovett

If you forget the words to your own song, you can always claim artistic license. Forget the words to the national anthem…

— Lyle Lovett

I married her just because she looks like you.

— Lyle Lovett

You're saying something with your appearance whether you mean to or not, so you may as well mean to.

— Lyle Lovett

My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I…

— Lyle Lovett

The first time I toured with the 'Large Band' in 1988, I got so tired. If I just stood still anywhere, I…

— Lyle Lovett

You don't have to have anything in common with people you've known since you were five. With old friends, you've got your…

— Lyle Lovett

When I first was trying to play the clubs around Houston to start playing my own songs, songwriters like Eric Taylor and…

— Lyle Lovett

One of my favorite things is when people will ask for a song that I hadn't planned to play. It is really…

— Lyle Lovett

I joke that I've never been burdened by having an actual hit. There's something to that. My records have sold enough to…

— Lyle Lovett

Both my parents worked, so I was home alone a lot, and I would listen to their records. They belonged to the…

— Lyle Lovett

I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about…

— Lyle Lovett

Every afternoon, I was in the pasture with cattle or fishing and shooting my BB gun. That kind of freedom allows imagination…

— Lyle Lovett

Women always go through the door first. Even ardent feminists would admit it's nice. It's not an acknowledgment of women as the…

— Lyle Lovett

My music has always been sort of in between categories. Sometimes record stores - back when there were record stores - they'd…

— Lyle Lovett

It's true that I did get the girl, but then my grandfather always said, Even a blind chicken finds a few grains…

— Lyle Lovett

Barbecue sauce is like a beautiful woman. If it's too sweet, it's bound to be hiding something.

— Lyle Lovett