Rodney Crowell

As a poet, Will Rogers just had this natural conversational style.

— Rodney Crowell

I think, in the middle of the '90s, I made a couple of records where I tried to figure out what I…

— Rodney Crowell

It’s hard to kiss the lips at night/That chew your ass out all day long.

— Rodney Crowell

I never allowed writer's block to be a reality. I framed it up for myself early on. I said, 'OK, if I'm…

— Rodney Crowell

I am deeply saddened by the loss of my children`s grandfather and my very dear friend. I loved big John with all…

— Rodney Crowell

If you're dedicated, if it's something that lives and breathes in your heart, then you've simply got to go ahead and do…

— Rodney Crowell

I have a history, and I am proud of my legacy as a songwriter, all of the songs that I've brought forth…

— Rodney Crowell

I wrote a song a good long while ago, 'I Ain't Livin' Long Like This,' that has been around and been recorded…

— Rodney Crowell

That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I…

— Rodney Crowell

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or…

— Rodney Crowell

Sometimes, the better writing comes when the song speaks through me and tells me what the song wants to say.

— Rodney Crowell

Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid to stare down the barrel of choices I have made.

— Rodney Crowell

I figure as an artist the best thing you can do is follow your heart - and if your heart is marketable,…

— Rodney Crowell

I'm under-appreciated, of course.

— Rodney Crowell

My mother was an oral storyteller. She would tell stories over and over again.

— Rodney Crowell

When you're younger, love is this magic thing where the heavens open up. You live 40 years past that, you realize sometimes…

— Rodney Crowell

The old handbook on writing is 'Write what you know.' I come from an autobiographical starting place almost all of the time,…

— Rodney Crowell

In life's rich beauty pageant we put children on a stage, said flash your soft white belly child, but just don't act…

— Rodney Crowell

Every now and then I'll get seduced by the idea of money, and I'll take a stab at that...and I fall flat…

— Rodney Crowell

If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more…

— Rodney Crowell

My parents were sharecrop farm kids with no education - seventh, eighth grade.

— Rodney Crowell

Over the years, I've come to realize that writing 'I Ain't Living Long Like This' was an exercise in combined musical influence,…

— Rodney Crowell

“You know I love to spend my mornings, like sunlight dancing on your skin”

— Rodney Crowell

Since 'Houston Kid,' I've got a pretty good track record. Before that, I wrote some hit songs, but I didn't come into…

— Rodney Crowell

As I started to study old blues recordings and really pay attention to my favorites, it really started to come to me…

— Rodney Crowell