Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

My guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.

I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.

I never had the blues; the blues always had me.

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.'

Everybody would grab a guitar and listen to somebody else and call themselves a folk singer. When they didn't know no more songs, they'd run out of them.

I was playing with steel picks on a steel guitar, and there was no amplification needed.

When I was hitch-hiking, people had to follow me, 'cause I didn't stay long.

Logically, when you talkin' about folk music and blues, you find out it's music of just plain people.

When somebody blazes a path to a highway that never end, you should appreciate 'em some.

Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

If we all want the peace and flooded the world with love, peace will wait for us at the shore.

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

We all want to be seen not for the choices we made ten years ago, but for who we are today.

Happiness is not a state to arrive at but a manner of traveling.

I decided on the spot that I would be an artist, and I assure you, it was no ordinary artist I had in mind.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

Really advanced civilization is based on advances in energy.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

From a distance it might look straight, but when you get close up, you can always see the line waver. And I think that's where the beauty is.

I came to a dead stop and began major revisions. Sometimes these entailed the shredding of all existing manuscript for a fresh start - an inefficient way to write a book, though I found it exciting.