Moderation is the key so I work certain amount of time and then I take a certain amount of time off.

- Jimmy Buffett

Places I've lived since then had to have some kind of uniqueness and character about them. And logically Key West, and then Down Island. So, all of that stuff sort of had it's roots in New Orleans and went crazy.

- Jimmy Buffett

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

- Jimmy Buffett

If life gives you limes, make margaritas.

- Jimmy Buffett

Quitting doesn't enter my mind.

- Jimmy Buffett

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

- Jimmy Buffett

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that. And New Orleans is one of them.

- Jimmy Buffett

If I couldn't laugh I just would go insane, If we couldn't laugh we just would go insane, If we weren't all crazy we would go insane.

- Jimmy Buffett

And I wound up in New Orleans for all those years and it was a great place, really a catalyst creatively.

- Jimmy Buffett

I always said that I wouldn't use a teleprompter, and if I start to sing real flat, I'll hang it up.

- Jimmy Buffett

There's something missing in the music industry today... and it's music. Songs you hear don't last, it's just product fed to you by the industry.

- Jimmy Buffett

I'm a big follower and reactor to weather.

- Jimmy Buffett

You know, as a writer, I'm more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

- Jimmy Buffett

At 57, to have a No. 1 album, I wasn't expecting it.

- Jimmy Buffett

I sell escapism.

- Jimmy Buffett

Phish and Dave Matthews really know their audiences and really treat them well.

- Jimmy Buffett

The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.

- Jimmy Buffett

Elvis was the only man from Northeast Mississippi who could shake his hips and still be loved by rednecks, cops, and hippies.

- Jimmy Buffett

Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

- Jimmy Buffett

My mother insisted that her children read.

- Jimmy Buffett