- Amanda Child: Why don't we just write a batch o' them good songs and make ourselves a record deal in Nashville?
- Travis Child: We gotta live some of it to write about it, you know. When some livin' comes along, you gotta reach out and just grab it.
- Amanda Child: Grab ass, that's all you know. You grabbed every ass from Georgia to Texas.
- Travis Child: Women calm me down, honey.
- Amanda Child: My name is Amanda Child. I'm 16 going on 47. Older brother's waiting on me at a bus station in Garnet, he's a famous singer from Nashville. I don't have a driver's license but I'm a damn good driver. And you should feel sorry for me, 'cause I'm an orphan, so just gimme a damn break!
- Amanda Child: As a rule I leave the socialising and drinking to Travis and I handle the business part of it.
- Conrad: You know, I get the feeling that half of everything you say is bullshit, I just don't know which half.
- Amanda Child: My name is Amanda Child, this here is Travis Child.
- [unfolds a poster of Travis]
- Amanda Child: Eh, he's my brother.
- Andy: He looks kinda flat, don't he?
- Travis Child: Well, you know I'm not a religious man, but this morning I g-woke up and, eh I was so bent outta shape and I just got down on my knees and I said, "Lord, why do you bring all this misery on me?
- Woman on Bus: Hmm...
- Travis Child: Then I heard this voice, great voice, kinda old like, you know, and sorta far away? And it spoke to me.
- Woman on Bus: What did it say?
- Travis Child: It said "Travis..." That's my name, Travis... it said "Hell, I don't know, Travis, somethin' about you just chaps at my ass."