I got into computers back in the early '80s, so it was a natural progression of learning about e-mail in the mid-'80s and getting into the Internet when it opened up in the early '90s.

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Well, I guess that early 12 string. The first Martin I bought. I bought it around 1957 with money I earned as a janitor assistant. I bought brand new. I still have that.

He blew his mind out in a caaaar.

I don't really collect guitars.

Man has tried his suicide with bigotry and hate, but in the end he'll kill himself with nothing but his waste.

I play a couple basic folks songs and break them down. I did that on a six string. I can't recall all the songs on it. There's some finger picking on it.

How many years will you crawl through this castle, so satisfied and still wanting more?

Leadbelly's guitar is in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.

If there's anyone in space, what they'll learn about the human race will be listening to us talking on the car phone.

Im not attracted to expensive things.

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I got married the second time in the way that, when a murder is committed, crackpots turn up at the police station to confess the crime.

I do think that I never got tied down to any social scene. I was just into creating stuff.

Silence is exhilarating at first - as noise is - but there is a sweetness to silence outlasting exhilaration, akin to the sweetness of listening and the velvet of sleep.

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

Opinion is the death of knowledge.

Things look different when history is seen as His-story.

I have a one of a kind collection of dolls. My house is like a museum.

Tactics mean doing what you can with what you have.