Skip to content

I've been in trouble most of my life. No stealing or anything like that, just fights. It's all fights.

— Billy Joe Shaver Billy Joe Shaver: Outlaw Country's Real Deal (2014)

Another quote →

More quotes by Billy Joe Shaver

Hopefully things will work out where we become friends enough so that he gives me back my bullet.

Billy Joe Shaver: Outlaw Country's Real Deal (2014)

Most of the things I write are things that are personal to me. I realized that that's the only way to really be honest. If you go writing about someone else you're just guessing at it.

I think maybe I was born to be a songwriter. It's quite a comfort. I wrote most of my songs to stay alive, the rest to get back in the house.

Billy Joe Shaver talks Waylon, women, more (2014)

I'm a serious guy, and hungry, too.

Billy Joe Shaver talks Waylon, women, more (2014)

I look to bop till I drop. That's what I want to do. I want to go out on the road [...]I love to travel and I couldn't afford to do it if it wasn't for this.

A Conversation with Billy Joe Shaver (2014)

All Billy Joe Shaver quotes →

Attribution

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Billy Joe Shaver (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.