Blues is not a dream, blues is truth.

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.

I only write about what I do, what happens to me.

Never doubt my weaseling abilities, Shadowhunter, for they are epic and memorable in their scope.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

My success just evolved from working hard at the business at hand each day.

We spend our lives dreaming of the future, not realizing that a little of it slips away every day.

In my old age I've come to find that if you respect other people, you feel better about yourself.

Impossible to see, the future is.

We have flooded ourselves with the media in all its many forms. Our minds are now open to signals. We have become aerials.

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things.

Every artist has his or her struggle to work out in their work. The more powerful the struggle, the more persuasive the art.

You look confused," said Adrian. I shook my head and sighed. "I think I'm just overthinking things." He nodded solemnly. "That's why I try to never do it.