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

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

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

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

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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.

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