Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

Sometimes I think life is just a rodeo, the trick is to ride and make it to the bell.

No, but I've always felt that with true talent, and a commitment to hard work, it is possible to achieve an enduring respect and appreciation. In other words, I don't take my fans for granted.

Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.

Long as I remember, rain been comin' down; Clouds of mystery fallin', confusion on the ground; Good men through the ages, trying to find the sun; And I wonder, still I wonder: Who will stop the rain?

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.

You evil thing, why do you haunt me?

Even though I have often recorded alone, I still feel the best music is made by musicians playing off each other.

There's a bad moon on the rise.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

...Every life contains a novel.

It sucked when you cared about someone and they didn't return your feelings..

Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.

It's very difficult to follow our dreams, but it's even more difficult to forget them.

What's so amazing about this historical moment is that it is bringing class to the fore and we have to think about the nature of work and hierarchy.

The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.

But that was in the days when they expected perils to come from without, and nothing made less sense by that time than a survival room buried in a house itself becoming one big coffin.

She had loved him. He knew this; he had never doubted it. But she had also asked him to kill her. If you love someone that much, you did not lay that sort of burden on him for the rest of his life.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

The participants expressed anxiety about the problems the Defense Ministry had been meeting in realizing its plans for future development.