All audiences should be slightly off balance.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

If you can weep with your words, the meaning of your heart can be written forever

Our God is Greater, Our God is Stronger, God, you are Higher than any other, Our God is Healer, Awesome in Power, Our God, Our God.

Thanksgiving is not only being aware of the abundance of good in the world but embracing it.

I wish I could see butterflies burst from cocoonsWithout tempering my amazementKnowing all beauty eventually dies.

A good shepherd encourages and inspires each one that works alongside him.

Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.

I was in Kashmir last weekend. Went to visit one of my sweaters.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.

The rest of the world is growing so quickly, they'll be looking for anything to buy.